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Untitled - Artist and year currently unknown 📍Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany

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Documenting the concrete, mosaics, and murals of the GDR. An archive of East German Kunst am Bau & socialist modernism. 📷 Original photography unless otherwise indicated. Alt account @digitalcosmonaut.com
Untitled - Artist and year currently unknown 📍Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
"Mocca-Eck", Artist Unknown, 1968 📍Berlin, Germany
A section of the "Tierwelt" (Wildlife) mosaic by Dagmar Glaser-Lauermann, 1973 📍Berlin, Germany
„Gaben der Völker“ (Gifts of the Peoples) by Irmela and Martin Hadelich, 1966 📍Halle-Neustadt, Germany
Happy 3er Oktober #TagDerEinheit
"Arbeiten für den Frieden" (Working for Peace), by Walter Womacka, 1965 📍 Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany
Still on my list to photograph 👍🏻
Friedenstaube ("Peace Dove") by Ortraud Lerch, 1977 📍Berlin, Germany
This piece was originally located on a different building that was torn down in 2010. The new owners of the property decided to save the mosaic and had it restored in 2018 at the cost of roughly €15,000.
Title, Artist and Year unknown (circa 1960s). 📍Chemnitz (formerly Karl-Marx-Stadt), Germany
Untitled by Arno Rink, 1971 📍Leipzig, Germany
A segment of the "Aus dem Leben der Kinder" ("From the Lives of Children") by Walter Womacka, 1955 📍Eisenhüttenstadt (formerly Stalinstadt), Germany
Spent the day out and about in Chemnitz. Glorious weather and lots of new material 👍🏻
Emblem of the GDR on the Leipzig Opera by Kunz Nierade and Kurt Hemmerling, 1960 📍Leipzig, Germany
"Kosmonaut“ (Cosmonaut) by Erich Enge, 1967 📍Schwedt/Oder, Germany
This neon sign was supposeldy inspired the "Go West Cowboy" in Las Vegas. The advertisement in Leipzig was put under monument protection in 1993. You used to be able to send a paid text message to a number and the sign would light up for 3 minutes. Sadly that service was discontinued in 2025.
"Die Löffelfamilie" (The Spoon Family) by Theo Hesselbarth and Jürgen Mau, 1975 📍Leipzig, Germany
The display at th S-Bahn Station was part of the Berliner Festspiele which did art tours/discussions along the Ringbahn. They ran from 20.8 until 20.9 - but you can still read up on it here. www.berlinerfestspiele.de/what-if-berlin
If you go through the main entrance of the S-Bahn Greifswalder Str. you might have noticed this "new" mural. It's a replica of Walter Womackas "Wenn Kommunisten träumen" (When communists dream) from 1976, and was originally displayed in the Palast der Republik.
Untitled - by Kurt-Hermann Kühn, 1982 📍Potsdam, Germany