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Macke's large-format canvas is reminiscent of Umberto Boccioni's painting The Street Enters the House (Sprengel Museum, Hanover, 1912), which was also exhibited at the Salon of Rhine. Like Boccioni, Macke's composition is centered on a female figure, but instead of houses and passers-by that are repeated and seen flowing over each other, a vortex of many reflections in the showcase glass is formed around the woman. Items displayed in a sunlit display case combine with the reflections of horses harnessed to carriages and people passing by. Mirror glass, where different plans are combined, lines whimsically intersect, embodies the bright, brilliant and hectic life of a metropolis. Paint strokes, mixing chaotically, help to visualize the street noise.Like Boccioni, Macke uses the cubist technique, breaking into separate planes the wall of the house on the right, thus emphasizing the instability of the composition. Here he also shows the influence of Robert Delaunay, whose painting Simultaneous Windows he had seen in Paris at the end of October 1912.
Robert Delaunay Sprengel Museum Umberto Boccioni Hanover cubist