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A striking poster promoting the newly established Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, featuring two vividly rendered macaws—a scarlet macaw and a blue-and-yellow macaw—perched together in an intertwined pose. Their plumage bursts outward in a riot of saturated reds, blues, greens, and yellows, rendered with wet, fluid brushstrokes that evoke watercolor more than standard print process. The style departs from the rigid visual language typical of East German graphic design in this era, offering instead a sense of spontaneity and warmth aimed at drawing families and children to the zoo.
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 as the zoological showcase of East Berlin, a counterpart to the long-established Zoologischer Garten in the Western sector. Located on the grounds of the Friedrichsfelde Palace, it was a symbol of socialist investment in public leisure and scientific education. This early poster is part of the first wave of promotional material produced to publicize the new park to residents of the GDR.
The BL-series production numbers and the ND classification seem to have been assigned by VEB Deutsche Werbe- und Anzeigengesellschaft, the state advertising agency, for tracking the poster’s printing chronology. Later reissues in the 1960s and 1970s sometimes have an added emblem of a monkey's face in the lower left.
