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Day: 30 April 2014

  • Round Heads by Nomad


    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 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

  • Austronaut / Cosmonaut by Victor Ash


    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 it shows the size of the work in relation to the building it is on, and the park in front of it.

    http://flic.kr/p/nrMo1j

  • Yellow Man

    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


    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 watchtowers began in 1966 and there were at one time 200 of them.

    http://flic.kr/p/na1mVL

  • Neue Wache


    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, eye-like opening in the roof ), and so is exposed to the rain, snow and cold of the Berlin climate, symbolising the suffering of civilians during World War II.?

    http://flic.kr/p/ntfSgM