The Chile Mural of the University of Konstanz

A particularly historic Chilean mural hangs near the Audimax of the University of Konstanz.

This mural was painted by Salvador Allende's exile brigade on April 25, 1977, during a concert by Quilapayún, who played songs of the Nueva Canción Chilena in the crowded Audimax.

The 1.70 x 8.10 meter large mural thematizes the freedom struggle of the Chilean people. In the center of the picture a female figure with bared chest looks directly at the viewers. The half of her long hair blowing to the right forms the Chilean flag. She recalls Eugène Delacroix's personification of freedom in La Liberté guidant le peuple (1830). Her strands merge into a worker figure, this one embracing a factory chimney. On the left of the picture, the hair of the female figure merges into the mop of hair of a male figure. Her facial expression appears determined, matching the oversized fist that is also facing left. Her hands and the hands of the figure in the center, which are orange, close together. Next to the man's face is a white dove, reminiscent of the dove in Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937). Below the same figure is a light blue globe with parchment scroll; it symbolizes the importance of education and historiography.