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Babrios saure Trauben by Peter Hoppe, 1982
Hellersdorf · wikidata.org
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?
Komposition by Inge Jastram, 1985
Hellersdorf · wikidata.org
According to what I found, the blank ends of these prefab blocks got handed to artists as giant canvases — there was a whole programme of it in the East. Beyond that I couldn't dig up anything about this one in particular.
Erisava: Twelve floors of brown and white squares. Is it supposed to cheer you up?
Mensch im Kreislauf der Natur by Peter Hoppe, 1980
Marzahn · wikidata.org
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.