The Rhine Salon presented works from a traveling exhibition of Futurists that had previously had been shown in Paris, London and in Berlin, at the gallery "Sturm".

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.

Mirror glass, where different plans are combined, lines whimsically intersect, embodies the bright, brilliant and hectic life of a metropolis.

[2] 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.