180 ° Berlin

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180 ° Berlin is the name of a panorama painting by the artist Marcel Backhaus that commemorated the end of the Second World War on Pariser Platz in Berlin in the summer of 2005 . In the panorama, the Brandenburg Gate was depicted as it was at the end of the war in 1945, which made it possible to make a direct comparison between then and now. This comparability made the history of the Second World War very graphic.

The photorealistic painting was created on the basis of historical photographs and was printed on a large canvas of 22 × 5 m. This canvas was attached to a semicircular construction, on the back of which a documentation reminded of other scenes of this war in Europe.

Web links

  • Project page of the panorama installation from the Brandenburg Gate in 1945 on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the end of the war in 2005