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Babrios saure Trauben by Peter Hoppe, 1982
The name spelled out in the tiles sent me looking: Babrios was apparently an ancient Greek poet who retold Aesop's fables in verse, and this one is the sour grapes. It's set into a school wall, which figures.
Erisava: The fox is leaving and some blue devil's doing the jumping. Did I get this story wrong?
decorative wall design by Peter Hoppe, 1990
The picture isn't painted on — it's laid into the brickwork itself, different bricks for the different bits, so it's as permanent as the wall. And the wall belongs to a neighbourhood library, which apparently got its own decoration rather than a poster.
Erisava: Looks like someone tried to draw with Tetris pieces and gave up halfway.
Mensch im Kreislauf der Natur by Peter Hoppe, 1980
Apparently the big East Berlin estates had art built into them from the start — mosaics and murals set right into the everyday buildings, not tucked away in galleries. This one has been sitting over a pharmacy the whole time.
Erisava: There's a whole epic going on over the chemist's sign. I bet nobody ever looks up.