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KH00000044
Berlin Mural
Berlin Wall Mural
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- Creation date
- 1986
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Acrylic mural on the Berlin Wall
- Dimensions
- W 30000 cm
- Subject
- Interlinked human figures in red and black on a yellow ground, symbolizing the connection between peoples
- Provenance
- Painted on the western side of the Berlin Wall at Checkpoint Charlie; destroyed when the Wall was dismantled
- Description
- Mural executed 23 October 1986 at the request of the Checkpoint Charlie Museum on a roughly 300-metre stretch of the Berlin Wall, with interlinked red and black human figures on a yellow field symbolizing unity. The painting no longer exists; the Wall segment was later removed.
- Notes
- Featured in Tate's online 'Gallery of Lost Art'. Width field records the ~300 m length as reported by the Keith Haring Foundation.
Data quality note
Length figures vary (300 m Foundation/Tate; 350 ft in some accounts); width is a linear wall length, not a picture width