Monday Mural - Fatherland and Thank you Andrei Sakharov

I love murals and street art. If you like murals or have a mural you'd like to post, this meme is for you.  Just follow the Linky steps below.  Once you start looking you will find murals everywhere.  The "Monday Mural" meme goes live on Monday at 12,01AM, Perth,Western Australian time. Be sure to link back to this blog and visit your fellow posters. Looking forward to your mural finds this week.

Thanks, Sami  

Two more murals from East Side Gallery, the longest and best kept segment of the former Berlin wall.

Fatherland (Vaterland) - painted in March 1990, by Günther Schaefer to honour the 50th anniversary of the Night of the Broken Glass (Kristallnacht) when Nazi forces in Germany and Austria destroyed Jewish owned shops smashing their windows. The mural is a protest against extreme regimes and abuse of human rights with a poem by Varda Carmeli (multidisciplinary artist living in Israel) delivering a message of hope for peace.

Near the former border crossing bridge "Oberbaumbrücke" this was the first work of art at the East Side Gallery, creating wall history, as in those days it was still an absolute novelty to be able to paint the wall artistically on the East side. In fact the artist was one of the organizers and founders of the East Side Gallery.

One of the most provocative murals at the gallery, it has been a target of of vandalism 46 times since it was originally painted in 1990, but the artist just renovates again and again as a form of non-violent opposition.

                     

This next mural entitled "Thank you Andrei Sakharov" (Danke, Andrei Sakharov), was painted by Dmitri Vrubel and Viktoria Timofeeva to honour the Soviet nuclear physicist, dissident and human-rights activist who died in 1989, just a few weeks after the fall of the wall.

Sakharov designed thermonuclear weapons for the Soviet Union, but later became an advocate of civil liberties and civil reform, facing state persecution for his activism. These efforts earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. 

Birds Fly (Vogelflug) - Painted in 1990 by German artist Jeanett Kipka.