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I have unified Coffee stains and watercolours to reperesnt some iconic images of Berlin and to celebrate the day of Germany unitity , 3rd October.

I usually work with watercolours only but it’s nice to see how two different mediums come together to celebrate a day in history.

 

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Conrad Schumann was an East German soldier who famously defected to West Germany during the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961

Colonel Gail Seymour “Hal” Halvorsen officer and command pilot in the United States Air Force

He is best known as the “Berlin Candy Bomber” who dropped candy to children during the Berlin airlift from 1948 to 1949.

Based on Yevgeny Khaldei’s photo, this photograph of Soviet soldiers raising a flag on top of the Reichstag building in Berlin is perhaps the most famous photo of World War II

The current Reichstag dome is a glass dome, constructed on top of the rebuilt Reichstag building in Berlin

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It was designed by architect Norman Foster and built to symbolize the reunification of Germany. The distinctive appearance of the dome has made it a prominent landmark in Berlin.

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“Weltzeituhr ” or the world clock at Alexanderquare in the eastern city centre was built in 1969 by Erich John