Horst Walter (14 June 1936;

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– 15 May 2012; Berlin) was a contemporary

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artist.

Life

Born in

during the

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regime, he grew up in the western part of the divided

. He produced drawings and modern sculptures. In divided Berlin he protested against the Berlin Wall. After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 he tried to remind the German public to keep parts of the Berlin Wall as a monument of memorial. To do this he started numberless performances in the so-called "No Man's Land" between the

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and the Reichstag building.

Projects (examples)

* 1985: "Zeichen setzten" Performances at Berlin Wall * 1990: "Kulturprojekt Potsdamer Platz": Cafe 9.November at the former checkpoint

* 1990: Potsdamerplatz: Keep The Wall Project- 118 pieces of the Berlin Wall * 1991: Exhibition

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* 1992: Retrospektive in

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* 1998: 1.place in the internationalen Mail-ART Kapos ART contest, Kaposvar; Mail Art. Hungary Budapest; Symposium. Barc Hungary * 2003: opening of Mauerspechtmuseum

References

External links

Horst Walter's website
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