Slabs of the Berlin Wall become art
Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall are painted with the portraits of (L to R) German politician Willy Brandt, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama, leader of Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi, Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi and South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- The sun shines between cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. East Germany’s rulers threw up the Berlin Wall in August 1961 to halt a mass exodus of disgruntled citizens turning their backs on the “workers’ paradise”. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall that can be painted legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)
- Cement slabs that used to make up the Berlin wall are painted with the portraits of (L to R) German politician Willy Brandt, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader Dalai Lama, leader of Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi, Burmese opposition politician Aung San Suu Kyi and South African anti-apartheid revolutionary Nelson Mandela stand in a vacant lot in Teltow outside of Berlin on September 18, 2014. A construction company purchased parts of the wall and offers the possibility to paint them legally after applying for it. (Photos by John MacDougall/AFP/Getty Images)