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Noon Hour mural by APHENOAH, Norderstedt, Germany

A tall, narrow mural filling the end wall of a modern residential building, seen from a parking deck on a sunny day with green trees on the left. Two harbour workers, many times larger than life, are painted from behind, standing at a sandstone balustrade with arched openings. The man on the left wears a dark flat cap, a blue-green work jacket and dark trousers, and rests his right arm across the shoulders of the older man beside him, who wears a matching cap, a pale olive shirt with black braces and dark work trousers. They look out across grey-blue water at a large container ship stacked with colourful containers, and behind it a city skyline with a tall slender tower on the left. Rust-red posts rise on the right. A small square signature, “APHE NOAH”, sits in the top right corner of the painted wall, and a grey metal grille runs along the bottom of the building.
Artwork FileNorderstedt · Germany
SeenDec 2024

Noon
Hour

APHENOAH (Oliver Hollatz and Noah Kauertz) · “Mittagsstunde” (Noon Hour), after Paul Kayser, painted in May 2023 for Walls of Vision · Schmuggelstieg Center, Norderstedt

Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia; photographer not named

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Two harbour workers in flat caps stand at a stone balustrade, one with his arm around the other, and look across the water toward Hamburg. The duo APHENOAH turned Paul Kayser’s wide painting “Die Mittagsstunde” into this tall mural on a residential building above the car park of the Schmuggelstieg Center in Norderstedt. It was the first wall of the Walls of Vision series in northern Germany.

5 things to know

  1. An old Hamburg painting, turned uprightWalls of Vision has urban artists repaint historical paintings on house walls. For Norderstedt the team chose “Die Mittagsstunde” by Paul Kayser (1869–1942), a founding member of the Hamburgischer Künstlerklub of 1897 and of the Hamburg Secession. APHENOAH first turned his landscape-format picture into a portrait-format composition “for the façade on Schmuggelstieg” (“angelegt für die Fassade am Schmuggelstieg”). Walls of Vision · Norderstedt Marketing
  2. Moved closer together on purposeOliver Hollatz: “Im Gegensatz zum Originalwerk haben wir die beiden Hafenarbeiter, die in der Abendsonne nach Hamburg rüber schauen, näher zusammengerückt, die betrachtete Landschaft zeitgemäßer und die Farbigkeit intensiver gestaltet.” (“Unlike the original, we moved the two dock workers, who look across to Hamburg in the evening sun, closer together, made the landscape they look at more contemporary and the colours more intense.”) With the new closeness the duo want to “das traditionelle Bild des starken Mannes aufbrechen” (break up the traditional image of the strong man) and respond to “der neuen Möglichkeit zu menschlicher Nähe nach Corona” (the new possibility of human closeness after Corona). Walls of Vision
  3. Nothing taken outNoah Kauertz: “Mit dieser kleinen Veränderung bewahren wir alle im ursprünglichen Werk vorhandenen Elemente und somit dessen Bildästhetik.” (“With this small change we keep all the elements of the original work, and so its look.”) Hollatz adds that Kayser “was strongly influenced by Albert Marquet” (“stark von Albert Marquet beeinflusst”), which let the duo bring in their own strong colours. Walls of Vision
  4. A local effortNorderstedt Marketing looked for the wall, and Bruhn Immobilien Management provided the façade free of charge. Norderstedt Marketing thanks local artist Sonja Lampen, Tobias Mährlein, “langjähriger Buchhändler am Schmuggelstieg” (a long-time bookseller on Schmuggelstieg), and Carsten Krohn of Norderstedt Marketing. Walls of Vision · Norderstedt Marketing
  5. A sign since December 2024In December 2024 the backers met in front of the mural again: a new sign now tells passers-by about the Walls of Vision project. Carsten Krohn: “Es ist etwas Besonderes, dass wir an diesem Ort nicht nur Kunst sichtbar gemacht haben, sondern jetzt mit dem Schild auch ihre Geschichte und die Vision dahinter teilen können” (“It is something special that at this place we have not only made art visible, but can now also share its story and the vision behind it with the sign”). Bruhn press release

Check-in guide

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On the wall of the residential building above the parking deck of the Schmuggelstieg Center in Norderstedt, at the REWE entrance (Bruhn press release, Norderstedt Marketing).
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The Maps button uses the map pin on Street Art Cities, 53.6813, 9.9987. That entry gives the address as “Am Tarpenufer 3-5, 22848” and labels it Hamburg; the sources from Norderstedt place the wall at the Schmuggelstieg Center.
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Look for the information sign about the project, added in December 2024 (Bruhn press release).
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The newest dated report we found is from 9 December 2024. We found no dated photo after that, so check before you travel.
Open in MapsWalls of Vision

Sightings

  1. 20237 May

    Photo: being painted

  2. 20238 May

    Artist’s photo: finished

  3. 202329 Nov

    Norderstedt Marketing

  4. 20249 Dec

    New sign added

  5. 20266 Oct

    In SAU “In Their Own World (8 Photos)”

Every stamp links to the dated source. Green stamps are photos dated by the camera data stored in them: the Walls of Vision share image shows the duo on a lift with the mural unfinished, and the photo on Street Art Cities, which says the pictures were provided by the artist, shows it finished. Amber stamps are reports about the mural.

On the record

Walls of VisionUndated project page

APHENOAH interpretieren „Die Mittagsstunde“ von Paul Kayser in Norderstedt

“Dank des großen Engagements von Norderstedt Marketing e. V. – insbesondere bei der Fassadenakquise – ist WALLS OF VISION nun erstmals auch in Norddeutschland vertreten.”

In English: “Thanks to the great commitment of Norderstedt Marketing e. V. – especially in finding a façade – WALLS OF VISION is now represented in northern Germany for the first time.” The project page also gives the duo’s statements quoted above.

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Norderstedt Marketing e.V.29 November 2023

Fassadenkunst Walls of vision

“Das Künstler-Duo APHENOAH, bestehend aus Oliver Hollatz und Noah Kauertz interpretierte das Gemälde „Mittagsstunde“ von Paul Kayser, einem 1869 in Hamburg geborenen Künstler, neu.”

In English: “The artist duo APHENOAH, made up of Oliver Hollatz and Noah Kauertz, reinterpreted the painting ‘Mittagsstunde’ by Paul Kayser, an artist born in Hamburg in 1869.” The page adds that the work can be seen at the Schmuggelstieg Center.

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Hermann Friedrich Bruhn GmbH & Co. KG (press release)9 December 2024

Unterstützer von „Walls of Vision“ erneut vor Ort

“Das beeindruckende Wandgemälde „Mittagsstunde“, das die Wandfläche des Wohngebäudes oberhalb des Parkdecks im Schmuggelstieg Center (Eingang REWE) schmückt, hat eine wichtige Ergänzung erhalten: Ein neues Schild informiert Passant*innen über die Hintergründe des Projekts „Walls of Vision“.”

In English: “The impressive mural ‘Mittagsstunde’, which decorates the wall of the residential building above the parking deck in the Schmuggelstieg Center (REWE entrance), has received an important addition: a new sign informs passers-by about the background of the ‘Walls of Vision’ project.” The newest dated report we found.

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The facts

Artist
APHENOAH, the duo of Oliver Hollatz and Noah Kauertz (Walls of Vision, Norderstedt Marketing) Checked
Title
“Mittagsstunde”, after Paul Kayser’s painting “Die Mittagsstunde” (Walls of Vision, Norderstedt Marketing, Bruhn, Street Art Cities). “Noon Hour” is the short English title used on Street Art Utopia, where APHENOAH’s statement calls the original “Noon Hour in the Harbor of Hamburg” Checked
Original
Paul Kayser, born 22 September 1869 in Hamburg, died 23 September 1942 in Donaueschingen (Walls of Vision) Checked. In a statement published on Street Art Utopia, APHENOAH give the original as “Noon Hour in the Harbor of Hamburg”, 1904 (SAU, 13 March 2024) Reported
Changes
Landscape format turned into portrait format; the two workers moved closer together; the landscape updated and the colours made stronger (Walls of Vision) Checked
Painted
May 2023: being painted on 7 May and finished by 8 May, by the camera dates of two photos (Walls of Vision image, Street Art Cities). No text source gives the dates Reported
Project
Walls of Vision, an art series of the Dr. Hans Riegel Stiftung, brought to Norderstedt by Norderstedt Marketing with the Bruhn group of companies; the façade was provided free of charge (Norderstedt Marketing, Walls of Vision) Checked
Place
The wall of the residential building above the parking deck of the Schmuggelstieg Center, REWE entrance, Norderstedt (Bruhn, Norderstedt Marketing, Walls of Vision). Street Art Cities lists “Am Tarpenufer 3-5, 22848” under Hamburg Checked
Sign
An information sign about the project was added in December 2024 (Bruhn) Checked
Photo
As published on Street Art Utopia, photographer not named (SAU). It shows the finished mural with the APHENOAH signature; the date it was taken is not stated Unconfirmed
Status
Standing, as far as we know. The newest dated report, of 9 December 2024, describes the mural on the wall and the new sign (Bruhn) Reported

Related

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This mural

Dated photos

  • Walls of Vision share image: the duo painting on a lift, camera date 7 May 2023 (FUJIFILM X-T30 II).
  • The first photo on the Street Art Cities entry: the finished mural, camera date 8 May 2023 (iPhone 14 Pro).

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