The 10 greatest works of art ever. 1  From mysterious 30,000-year-old cave paintings to a 'cathedral of the mind' by Jackson Pollock, art critic Jonathan Jones names his favourite artworks of all time â and where in the world you can see them. What would make your top 10? â¢ The 10 weirdest artworks ever. â¢ The 10 sexiest artworks ever.
Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989.fter several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere.
  It was a wall that divided East Germany  and West Germany.   The Berlin wall is, of corse as you can tell, a wall. It separated  east Berlin from west Berlin. It was built in 1961/62.  It was a wall separating Germany into two parts East, and West  Berlin. East controlled by Soviet Union and the west controlled by  United States, France, and Great Britain.  The Berlin Wall was constructed by the Russians in 1961 in an  attempt to cordon off the allied sector of West Berlin, occupied by  the French, Americans, and British.ohn F. Kennedy ... was the President of the United States of America at the time that construction of the Berlin Wall began (13 August 1961) began. Kennedy was sworn in as th â¦ e 35th US President at noon on January 20, 1961.