Resource #10: East Side Gallery
Site Name: East Side Gallery
URL: http://www.eastsidegallery.com/
Owner: East side Gallery, artists cooperative
Type of Resource: Inspirational international murals on the Berlin Wall.
Description: The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall near the center of Berlin. Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom and make it the largest open air gallery in the world. Galvanised by the extraordinary events which were changing the world, artists from all around the globe rushed to Berlin after the fall of the Wall, leaving a visual testimony of the joy and spirit of liberation which erupted at the time. Some of the best known paintings such as “The Mortal Kiss” by Dimitrji Vrubel, of Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev’s mouth-to-mouth embrace and Birgit Kinder’s Trabi (Trabant) knocking down the Wall. They have provided popular postcard material until today. The paintings which still reflect the patchwork, eclectic and bohemian atmosphere of Berlin today are a mixed-bag of surreal images, political statements and graffiti-like effusions stretching from the Oberbaum Brücke to the Ostbahnhof. The murals are under heritage protection. Restoration of over a quarter of the paintings which have suffered decay caused by defacement, weather and air pollution is underway.
Uses: I have used this site for a project about the berlin wall, its historical meaning, and then how artists have made murals on it about freedom.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to do projects about the berlin wall. Students can use it to be inspired to do their own murals about their beliefs (that is the project unit I have developed). I use other sites as well.
Quality: The quality of this website is good.
Authorship:
Point of View or Bias: none
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Verifiability:
Currency: 2002.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility errors.
URL: http://www.eastsidegallery.com/
Owner: East side Gallery, artists cooperative
Type of Resource: Inspirational international murals on the Berlin Wall.
Description: The Berlin Wall East Side Gallery is a 1.3km-long section of the wall near the center of Berlin. Approximately 106 paintings by artists from all over the world cover this memorial for freedom and make it the largest open air gallery in the world. Galvanised by the extraordinary events which were changing the world, artists from all around the globe rushed to Berlin after the fall of the Wall, leaving a visual testimony of the joy and spirit of liberation which erupted at the time. Some of the best known paintings such as “The Mortal Kiss” by Dimitrji Vrubel, of Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev’s mouth-to-mouth embrace and Birgit Kinder’s Trabi (Trabant) knocking down the Wall. They have provided popular postcard material until today. The paintings which still reflect the patchwork, eclectic and bohemian atmosphere of Berlin today are a mixed-bag of surreal images, political statements and graffiti-like effusions stretching from the Oberbaum Brücke to the Ostbahnhof. The murals are under heritage protection. Restoration of over a quarter of the paintings which have suffered decay caused by defacement, weather and air pollution is underway.
Uses: I have used this site for a project about the berlin wall, its historical meaning, and then how artists have made murals on it about freedom.
Usefulness: This resource can be used by teachers wanting to do projects about the berlin wall. Students can use it to be inspired to do their own murals about their beliefs (that is the project unit I have developed). I use other sites as well.
Quality: The quality of this website is good.
Authorship:
Point of View or Bias: none
Referral to Other Sources:
Verifiability:
Currency: 2002.
Accessibility: WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) reports 1 accessibility errors.