In this print, Ludwig Meidner captures the bustling, anxious energy of a street in Wilmersdorf, an area of Berlin. Meidner places the viewer in the street, amidst the constant movement of cars and pedestrians, rendered in parallel lines that constitute blurred forms. Buildings and streetlights tower overhead. In his 1914 essay "Instructions for the Painting of Pictures of the Metropolis," Meidner described the street as "a bombardment of hissing window rows, cones of light racing among every kind of vehicle and a thousand hopping balls, bits of people, billboards, and roaring, formless masses of color." His works are often read as anxious images of impending apocalypse, but they can also be seen as celebrations of the vitality of the modern city.