1 / 6Painted by Russian artist Dmitri Wrubel, The Fraternal Kiss depicts the infamous embrace between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker. It took place in 1979 in honour of the 30th anniversary of the German Demonstrated Republic, or East Germany. The slogan under the painting reads 'My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love'.
2 / 6Painted by Russian artist Dmitri Wrubel, The Fraternal Kiss depicts the infamous embrace between Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and East German President Erich Honecker. It took place in 1979 in honour of the 30th anniversary of the German Demonstrated Republic, or East Germany. The slogan under the painting reads 'My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love'.
3 / 6A symbol of the Communist East Germany, the Trabant car was used as an escape vehicle to go over the Berlin wall. This painting by Birgit Kinder is a depiction of those times.
4 / 6This mural painted by Gabriel Heimler titled ‘Der Mauerspringer’, meaning the wall jumper depicts a West German jumping over to the East as symbolising an escape towards freedom.
5 / 6Artist Günther Schaefer fuses German and Israeli flags in this painting to commemorate the traumatic beginning of Fascism and Communism. The flag and its ‘pendant painting’ were created to honour of the 50th anniversary of the Night of the Broken Glass when Nazi forces in Germany and Austria destroyed Jewish-owned shops. The painting lends itself as a protest against extreme regimes and abuses of human rights.
6 / 6Confusion, joy, trepidation, and liberation—Berlin artists Kani Alavi capture the various emotions felt by East Germans heading over to the West in this abstract painting depicting Checkpoint Charlie the day the wall fell.
