The vision that the German Expressionists had of the large city was that of a hostile and menacing centre, conducive to corruption. In this case, Meidner offers us this urban landscape centred on a tottering house that seems to be falling down before our eyes. It belongs to a series on the city that the artist painted in this period and which had as a title Apocalyptic Landscape. In this work we see influences of Futurism and of Delaunay, but outstanding over these is the tormented vision of reality, increased by the predominance of a cold range of colours.
