Wilderness

...a few snapshots from a visit at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. I liked best the exhibition Bestiarium by Walton Ford (first picture, go to: http://www.waltonford.org/de/home/ )

Glory and decay of Socialism

The Towers of the Frankfurter Tor and the adjoining streets Frankfurter Allee and Karl-Marx-Allee in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin are witnesses of the past under Soviet influence.The complex was built in the 1950s on representative purposes of the strength of the Socialist system. The streets were planned as large boulevards for parades whereas the buildings show similarity to the Lomonossov University in Moscow and the Culture Palace in Warsaw. The architectural style is called Socialist classicism for it uses antique devices as columns and triangle gables. Also typical are the claddings of ceramic tiles. The whole construction was planned as apartement buildings and called palaces of the workpeople.

Nowadays only parts are sanified while some others decay. It is by this a visible allegory of the political system of the GDR.

Walking through these streets is somehow fascinating, you feel the spirit of the Soviet era that is not long gone.

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probably no new drawings before march...