Berlin wall 30 years ago today
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GM
Legendary Member
- Location
- North of the river
From todays Sunday London Ride, 2 bits of the wall at the war museum....
- Location
- London
The paint on the one on the left looks suspiciously fresh.
Been restored?
Been restored?
GM
Legendary Member
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- North of the river
I think you're right. A little bit of research tells me the artwork was done by Thiery Noir and Stik.
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- London
booze and cake
probably out cycling
@Blue Hills I'm going to do a post about this on my street art thread after I've been to the shops, but no its not original, and its not just done by some random, the artists were asked to do it to commemorate the fall of the wall.
Thierry Noir, who did the one on the left was the first artist to illegally paint miles of Berlin Wall in 1984, and it gradually became covered in graffiti and became a 'palimpsest of protest'. Some his original artworks can still been seen on some of the original fragments in Berlin that remain.
Thierry Noir, who did the one on the left was the first artist to illegally paint miles of Berlin Wall in 1984, and it gradually became covered in graffiti and became a 'palimpsest of protest'. Some his original artworks can still been seen on some of the original fragments in Berlin that remain.
Wikipedia has a photo from 2015, which looks more like an original https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/...ide_the_Imperial_War_Museum_November_2015.jpg
Also I posted a graffiti picture of the wall (1981) in another thread - https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/gallery-your-best-ever-photo.250220/page-5#post-5745360
Edit - Seems I was posting at the same time as @booze and cake
Also I posted a graffiti picture of the wall (1981) in another thread - https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/gallery-your-best-ever-photo.250220/page-5#post-5745360
Edit - Seems I was posting at the same time as @booze and cake
Fab Foodie
hanging-on in quiet desperation ...
- Location
- Kirton, Devon.
A friend of ours has a restored one, he took me and @Hill Wimp out for a spin around Romney Marsh, I hadn't had so much fun in a car for years. They're an absolute hoot!Speaking of cars.....
Trabants 1981
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Trabants (for hire) 2013
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booze and cake
probably out cycling
As promised here's a bit more background on those newly painted slabs of the original Berlin Wall at the Imperial War Museum posted above.
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/page-89#post-5790473
https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/street-art.221565/page-89#post-5790473
DRM
Guru
- Location
- West Yorks
The other thing I Remember was when we went to Berlin, we actually were camping just outside Potsdam, one morning we were walking through the site to get up to the road & catch the tram to Potsdam railway station, when there was a hell of a racket coming up behind us, I knew straight away that a Warburg was approaching , my son saw this car and said what on earth is wrong with that thing, as it it left us in a cloud of two stroke fumes, there was also someone with an immaculate Zundapp motor bike on site too.
The other thing I noticed was that the locals in static caravans were very insular, and wouldn’t speak to their neighbours, which is very strange when camping, but perfectly understandable when you think how many people were Stasi informers telling them what their friends and neighbours said and did, this was 19 years after the wall came down
The other thing I noticed was that the locals in static caravans were very insular, and wouldn’t speak to their neighbours, which is very strange when camping, but perfectly understandable when you think how many people were Stasi informers telling them what their friends and neighbours said and did, this was 19 years after the wall came down
