Berlin street art

 

April 14, 2012...

...Kastanienallee...

...Prenzlauer Berg...

...Berlin...

...Germany...

...Europe...

...northern hemisphere...

...Planet Earth...

...solar system...

...solar insterstellar neighborhood...

...milky way galaxy...

...local galactic group...

...virgo supercluster...

...local superclusters...

...observable univers...

...summertime.

*** WARNING! ***

This  property is secured by graffiti and street art!

*** WE ARE WATCHING YOU ***

KAPITALISMUS
normiert
zerstört
tötet

Famous "Tuntenhaus", Kastanienallee 86, with the lettering

CAPITALISM
normalizes
destroys
kills

that was fixed on the house front in 2004 to demonstrate against rent increase and a change of living conditions.

Did you see the Black-Red-Gold colours (we have on our federal flag), accidentally created by the black light bulb holder, the goldish yellow bulb and the red light? That was certainly NOT the intention of the street artist to create such a context... ;-)

Street art meets narrow-minded smugness...

...two sides of the same coin nowadays???

Name of a fish & chips stall at Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin.

No idea how many great street art motifs already disappeared for ever when a building is fully renovated.

So I'm really curious how many of my motifs I'm going to find again the next time I will visit Berlin.

top and bottom: two of my favourite motifs I found:

John Lennon in interaction with the two guys busily engaged in writing text messages with their mobiles

and

never-to-be-forgotten Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergmann) in

Michael Curtiz romantic drama film Casablanca.

You find Little Lucy in nearly all variations (the one I took is one of the most harmless motifs) everywhere on Berlin's walls...

Street art motif and the ravages of time

Two different interpretations of womanhood I found in the streets of the Prenzlauer Berg locality.