1. Method for display of medical images comprising the following steps: (a) selection of a partitioning of an image display area from a predefined set of partitionings and display of a representation of the partitioning of the image display area in an image selection area, (b) display of representations of images of a set of images in the image selection area, (c) assignment of a selected representation of an image to be displayed to an area of the representation of the partitioning via a graphical user interface, and (d) display of the image in a part of the image display area that corresponds to the area of the representation of the partitioning.