Kiel festhalten. Stadtansichten von Gretel Riemann

In the organizer's words:

Special exhibition to mark the 100th birthday of Kiel artist Gretel Riemann

"I capture what will one day belong to the past: houses and places that were once full of life."

Pictures of Kiel are at the heart of the artistic work of Gretel Riemann (1924-2012). Born in Kiel, the artist followed the transformation of her hometown from the 1970s onwards. With a keen sense for the places of upheaval, Gretel Riemann created snapshots of Kiel's urban landscape between decay and further development in the style of realistic objectivity. They are expressive pictorial documents of the structural changes to the cityscape.

The Kiel City and Maritime Museum has been collecting works by the artist since 1977. On the occasion of her 100th birthday, it is showing a selection of her Kiel cityscapes from 1970 to 2012: from the early demolition pictures on Brunswiker Straße and Exerzierplatz to the old buildings of the southern suburb with Sophienhof, which was planned over in the 1980s, to the depictions of more recent urban developments in the old town such as Berliner Platz, Bootshafen and Schlossstraße. Gretel Riemann's works are a portrait of Kiel with all its fractures. They show Kiel landmarks as well as what at first glance appear to be inconspicuous places of upheaval and upheaval. The exhibition invites visitors to discover the city and at the same time aims to sharpen their awareness of the architecture and the current changes to the cityscape.