Round heads by Nomad The artist ‘Nomad’ uses a pictogram style in his painting “Rounded Heads”. This is pretty much across Oppelner Strasse from the Yellow man mural in Kreuzberg ( http://bit.ly/PRbowX… ) http://flic.kr/p/nrMnFm
The Lads by London Police The London Police have a very distinctive style ( http://bit.ly/R0fAeM ). “The Lads” appears on a wall which looks like it is the background to a kids playground at the corner of Cuvrystrasse and Wangelstrasse in Kreuzberg. http://flic.kr/p/nrsyBe
Astronaut / Cosmonaut by Victor Ash One of the murals I was determined to see while in Berlin was this of the astronaut painted by Portugese born, Danish based artist – Victor Ash ( www.victorash.net/ ). I took several shots of the work which is about four-five stories tall. This was my favourite however as […]
Yellow man, Street art in Kreuzberg“Yellow Man” is a painting by the twins Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, known as Os Gemeos. The mural is in Oppelner Strasse, Kreuzberg http://bit.ly/1o2IHsV
Rundblickbeobachtungsturm Down a side street off the busy commercial hub of Potsdamer Platz is this relic of the Berlin Wall and the Cold War,an East German watchtower. The “panorama observation tower” originally stood between the Brandenburg Gate and Leipziger Platz and served as a base for border guards. Construction of these crenelated type BT 6 […]
Neue Wache Originally a guardhouse in the 1800s, Neue Wache ( or New Guardhouse ) has been a war memorial since the 1930s. It is really just a single room, containing a single sculpture, an enlarged version of Käthe Kollwitz’s Mother with her Dead Son. The sculpture is directly under the oculus ( a round, […]
Craft beer in Prenzlauer berg Leibhaftig is a bar that serves Bavarian Tapas, but is also the home of a hausbrauerei, Wanke Brau. At the moment it serves a pilsner and a weissbier, both of which are very good. These are brewed on commission by brewery Schleppzig in the Spreewald, about 60 kms outside Berlin. […]
Art works, Teufelsberg I left it for a couple of days to recover from the information overload which was my trip to Field Station, Berlin or Teufelsberg as it is more commonly known. Today however I went through the photos I had taken of the art works on the mountain Built on an artificial mountain […]
Market Gate of Miletus – Pergamon Museum – http://bit.ly/1kebVCD The other two photos here are the Pergamon altar and the Ishtar Gate into Babylon It is hard to describe the Pergamom Museum for it is unlike most museums that I have visited in that much of its contents are large pieces of ancient buildings which […]
Grunewald, Berlin One of the bonuses of getting to Teufelsberg was the opportunity to walk through a small part of the Grunewald forest. [Wikipedia] http://flic.kr/p/noQvSv