Spring

In order to open up artistic and cultural values ​​to a broader public, to bring them closer to young people in particular and transport historical works of art into the future by means of urban art, Dr. Hans Riegel-Foundation has launched art project series "Walls of Vision".
Essen based artists Jan Schoch aka EIKE & COSI have chosen and reinterpreted the famous historic artwork of Alphonse Mucha " Die vier Jahreszeiten", which was realized at Weiglestraße just below A40  highway underpass.  

Spring: Portrait Ivana Hoffmann

At the age of 19, she joined the Kurdish movement in northern Syria, which focusses on building a gender-equal, ecological, grassroots democratic society. When the Kurdish groups joined the fight against IS as allies of the West, primarily the USA, Ivana also took up arms and fell in battle against IS at the age of 20.