While still a student at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Rainer Fetting founded the Gallery am Moritzplatz together with some artist friends in 1977. It became a nucleus of the Neue Wilde, a group of artists representing a new form of objective painting oriented on Expressionism.

The painting “Yellow Wall” is part of a series of works by Fetting relating to the Berlin Wall. The section of Wall depicted here was in close proximity to the Gallery am Moritzplatz. The yellow colour removes any sense of threat from the Wall. Against the deep blue of the night sky, instead it glows like the backdrop to a promising stage set, apparently embracing and protecting the biotope of the island city, West-Berlin.