When Wagin painted his mural in 1975, Berlin discovered wall paintings as an opportunity to brighten up a city still associated with cold war drabness. Paolozzi’s work, conceived in the same year, came out of a competition sponsored and initiated by the Berlin senate. “But the senate isn’t coming anywhere near to exhausting the potential of its street art for tourism. A group of younger street artists have already announced their willingness to paint a slightly modified version of Wagin’s classic at another location in the city. Inhabitants of a building on Albrechtstrasse have reportedly offered up their wall, which is clearly visible from Friedrichstrasse station.

Source: The Guardian April 02, 2018 10:49 UTC