60+ Berliner Mauer 1990
Finally cranes move in to tear down the wall.
Berliner mauer 1990. The fall of the berlin wall german. The gallery is located on the so called hinterland mauer which closed the border to west berlin. Hermann waldenburg a fine full color selection of maybe the world s longest mural the western side of the late wall. Along the mühlenstraße in friedrichshain close to the east station there is a work known as hinterlandmauer which was painted in 1990 by 118 artists both men and women from 21 countries.
For more than 28 years the wall divided the western part of the city from the east. Berliner mauer pronounced bɛʁˈliːnɐ ˈmaʊ ɐ listen was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided berlin from 1961 to 1989. The berlin wall german. The images are powerful and wide ranging but chiefly political.
The images express the joy that greeted the fall of the berlin wall. The actual border at this point had been the river spree. Mauerfall on 9 november 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the iron curtain and the start of the fall of communism in eastern and central europe. The gallery consists of 105 paintings by artists from all over the world painted in 1990 on the east side of the berlin wall.
Construction of the wall was commenced by the german democratic republic gdr east germany on 13 august 1961. Die berliner mauer aus augenhöhe am potsdamer platz 1985 todesstreifen und wachturm des typs führungsstelle an der mühlenstraße 1990 dort entsprach die hinterlandmauer der sonst nach westen zugewandten bauart stützwandelement ul 12 41. Get this from a library. The fall of the inner german border took place shortly afterwards.
In 1990 the berlin wall was finally torn down.