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With this blog I want to offer a kaleidoscopic overview of the history, people, geography, art, architecture, languages, etc. of Central and Eastern Europe, a region that is still a bit unknown and misunderstood, even more than 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It seems that a lot of people still suffer from "Mauer im Kopf"'. It will mainly show photographs (both old and recent), but expect the occasional quotes, videos, posters etc. The title is inspired by Milan Kundera's novel.
If you are the owner of one of the artworks featured here, and you want it removed, contact me.
Also, if you have any questions, comments, or requests, don't hesitate to contact me.
If you are the owner of one of the artworks featured here, and you want it removed, contact me.
Also, if you have any questions, comments, or requests, don't hesitate to contact me.
Sergei Gerasimov - A Collective Farm Festival, 1937
Aleksandr Rodchenko - War of the Future, 1930
Wassily Kandinsky - Green Composition, 1923
Léon Bakst, 1912
Poster by Aleksandr Rodchenko and Vladimir Mayakovsky
Valentin Serov - Девочка с персиками (The girl with the peaches), 1887
This was the painting that inaugurated Russian Impressionism.
Ilya Repin: Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, November 16, 1581, 1870–1873 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
