Art Trail

The Giessen Art Trail comprises a total of 15 works of art set up along a stretch of just over one kilometer in the area of the cafeteria, university library, Phil I, and Phil II. If you follow the footpath along the Klingel creek from the city center, the first thing you reach at the level of the Student Union is Claus Bury's Elevated Gradation, which was moved here from the middle of the Art Trail at the beginning of 2020. Except for Peter Knapp's Marble No. 126 and H.A.P. Grieshaber's printing block Joseph's Legend, both of which are in the university library, all of the artworks are freely accessible. Neighing Stallion by Gerhard Marcks has stood in front of Philosophikum I since 1974 and is therefore older than the Art Trail itself, which was established in 1982. Gottfried Boehm, then professor of art history at JLU, had the idea for this trail, which the Special Construction Fund for the Artistic Design and Furnishing of Buildings of the State of Hessen financed. Instead of distributing artworks among different buildings, the decision was made to present them in public spaces in the form of an art path. The most recent work of art is The Marks by Norbert Radermacher. The 16 bronze plaques were embedded in the ground in front of the Audimax in 2004. They are currently not on display due to renovations but are to be relocated to their original place once the construction is finished.

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Story map: Since summer semester 2021, the art trail can also be explored with an interactive story map. The students Benjamin Herzog, Johanna Klöppel, and Louisa Schulz created and developed the story map in the seminar Fundamentals of Design of the journalism history department under the direction of Uta Oettel: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5c8ad17d7ea7432593d6873fa8889ab0