Line U2 at Schönhauser Allee underground station in black and white by Silva Wischeropp

About "Line U2 at Schönhauser Allee underground station in black and white"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This urban and monochrome photograph was taken on 15 August 2012 in the late afternoon light with the Nikon and shows the popular and famous Schönhauser Allee stop of the U2 underground line in the Berlin district of Pankow.
The underground station is an elevated station on the U2 underground line in the Prenzlauer Berg district of the Berlin borough of Pankow. It is located on Schönhauser Allee just past the intersection of Eberswalder/Danziger Straße with Kastanien-/Pappelallee. The station, opened by the Hochbahngesellschaft under the name Danziger Straße on 27 July 1913, was called Dimitroffstraße from 1950 to 1990.
The station is located on the central reservation of Schönhauser Allee and has a central platform with two exits. Of the 110-metre-long platform, the southern half is covered with a hall, and later the northern end was also covered with a single-support roof structure.
The hall was built in riveted steel construction and is green in colour. The Nordring station (today: Schönhauser Allee), the second station on the elevated line, has an almost identical structure.
The clear, graphic implementation along the train tracks to the rear platform view lends the picture motif a dynamic, exciting pictorial character and combines perfectly with the living and working spaces through its graphic order and harmony.
The abstract conversion into classic black and white enchants the urban motif into an elegant, timeless and aesthetic pictorial statement. With its black and white tone, it fits very discreetly into all living and working spaces and does not lose any of its visual impact.