Fresco on the Berlin Wall - SKETCHLINE

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1986

Fresco on the Berlin Wall

author

Keith Haring

description

The original has not been preserved.

Berlin (Germany).

The fresco on the Berlin wall was created by order of the Museum of NATO’s Checkpoint Charlie. The drawing three hundred meters long is a schematic representation of intertwining human bodies in red, black and yellow. The national colours of the German flag symbolized the reunion of East and West Germany. The fresco was almost completely damaged and covered with other images several years before the wall was destroyed, so there is no way to restore it. Some fragments of the work were saved thanks to photographs.