East Side Gallery
The East Side Gallery is a 1.3 kilometer long open-air gallery on a remnant of the former Berlin Wall between Ostbahnhof and Oberbaumbrücke. In 2008, the large-scale work of art was in such poor condition that it had to be renovated from the ground up. The refurbishment required the paintings, which had been created by international artists in 1990, to be taken down and reapplied when they were finished. For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 2009, artists from all over the world reapplied their earlier paintings from 1990.
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Dmitri Vrubel's "Fraternal Kiss"
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Many people visit the former inner-German border at the so-called East Side Gallery in Berlin.
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Picture of a Trabant (East German car) breaking through a wall by Birgit Kindler.
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The East Side Wall is a 1.3 kilometer long painted section of the former Berlin Wall along the Spree River.
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Passers-by at the East Side Gallery in Berlin
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With over one hundred original wall paintings, the East Side Gallery is the longest open-air gallery in the world.
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The East Side Gallery has to be restored regularly.
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The East-Side Gallery in Berlin, seen from a boat.
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In 2006, a 40-meter-long section of the gallery had to give way to provide access from the Spree to a new event location at Ostbahnhof.
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In 2008, the large-scale work of art was in such poor condition that it had to be renovated from the ground up.
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The refurbishment required the paintings, which had been created by international artists in 1990, to be taken down and reapplied when they were finished.
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For the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 2009, artists from all over the world reapplied their earlier paintings from 1990.
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91 of the original 106 works were reapplied to the East Side Gallery.
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The famous wall painting of the Socialist fraternal kiss between Erich Honecker and Leonid Brezhnev by artist Dimitrij Vrubel before the second renovation ...
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... and after.
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A barrier is now to be erected in front of the remains of the Berlin Wall to protect the East Side Gallery.
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