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Berlin Wall gets facelift

Stroke by stroke, Gerhard Kriedner applied pink acrylic paint with a small brush on a 14-yard stretch of the Berlin Wall, recreating the mural he first painted months after the Berlin Wall came down on November 9, 1989.

Kriedner and 90 artists from around the world have gathered again to repaint their original creations on the concrete slabs, bringing new life to images that have been eroded by the elements over the last two decades, on the longest remaining length of the wall that once split Germany's capital. "This is a very emotional thing for me," Kriedner, 69, said, adding that he escaped from communist East Germany to the West himself as a young man. "The Berlin Wall stands for the total lack of freedom we had at the time."

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Image: In this Oct. 21, 2009 file picture tourists pass a painting on a segment of East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany. 91 artists worldwide have gathered 20 years since the wall came down on Nov. 9, 1989, to repaint their original creations on the concrete slabs, bringing new life to images that were eroded by the elements and time that had decorated the longest remaining length of the wall that once split Berlin and, to an extent, west and east.

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