This artwork belongs to the collection of the Deutsche Bank in Berlin, and it is a drawing. The particularity of this drawing is that the artist drew the frame leaving the inside of the work empty. This inversion of functions of the different parts of a painting (or a drawing in this case) suggests that […]
Here we are talking about Andy Warhol again! But today we are speaking about a completely different artwork. If you want to see the previous one, check it out here! How many times did you think “I could have done that!” in front of a contemporary work? Well, in this case Andy Warhol is making […]
We are at the end of the #BerlinSeries, and we want to finish it with an artwork whose meaning is our hope for the future to come. In fact, this enormous sculpture (30 metres high) is a symbol of reunification, unity, strength. It represents three men joining in the center, but these men re made […]
This work by the famous german artist Käthe Kollwitz is places inside the Neue Wache (New Guardhouse), a neoclassical building inspired by the Roman Pantheon. The Neue Wache was dedicated to the Unknown Soldier of the World Wars since 1931, more than 100 years after its construction. The hole in the roof is open, it doesn’t […]
The monument for the Holocaust was inaugurated in 2005, much later than the finish of the World War II, and it was designed by the architect Peter Eisenman. As Wikipedia reports, it consists of a 19,000 m2 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or “stelae”, arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m […]
Today we speak about the architecture of the Reichstag Dome, the glass cupola above the building that hosts the German parliament. From the dome, accessible to the public with a reservation, the whole cityscape can be seen at 360 degrees. The debating chamber of the Bundestag, the German parliament, can be seen below it. It was designed by architect Norman Foster and […]
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