Abstract

This photo shows the mural My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love, or Brotherly Kiss, painted by artist Dmitri Vrubel on the East side of the Berlin Wall in 1990. The mural is based on a photograph showing Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev and East German leader Erich Honecker exchanging a “brotherly kiss” at the celebrations of the 30th anniversary of the GDR in 1979. Unlike the well-known graffiti on the West German side of the Wall, the Russian-born artist painted this mural the year after the Wall fell on the East side of the Wall. The mural, ironically titled My God, Help Me Survive This Deadly Love, is part of the East Side Gallery installation and is one of the best-known works of post-1989 Wall art. 

My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love or Fraternal Kiss (1990)

Source

Source: My God, Help Me to Survive This Deadly Love or Fraternal Kiss (1990). Mural by Dmitri Vrubel; photograph by Manfred Uhlenhut. Date of photograph: June 16, 1990. 
Source: bpk-Bildagentur, image number 30037396. For rights inquiries, please contact Art Resource at requests@artres.com (North America) or bpk-Bildagentur at kontakt@bpk-bildagentur.de (for all other countries).

© bpk / Manfred Uhlenhut