Around 1910 Kanoldt created his first views of Munich in the vicinity of Nikolaiplatz in Schwabing, including our work from 1913. Only a few of these works have survived and are only known from black-and-white illustrations. This is the first time that the present work "Straßenbild I“ (Street Picture I) is shown in color. It shows a section of a street with a kiosk, small walking figures and dark green trees from an elevated point of view. The street’s exact location can’t be identified, it is also possible that the artist composed the street scene from imagination. However, as Michael Koch describes it, the artist's street pictures of this time were not "about an authentic depiction of the local situation, but about the reproduction of a picture from imagination solely guided by the artistic need for expression" (quoted from: Michael Koch, Alexander Kanoldt Catalogue raisonné of the paintings, Munich 2018, p. 22). In the reduction to surfaces and forms, while maintaining a consciously restrained colorfulness, he achieved a synthesis of the his preoccupation with Cubism and with the constructive approaches of Paul Cézanne. Kanoldt's artistic career in Munich was abruptly interrupted by the outbreak of war. In the years from 1914 to 1918 he served in the military. In 1924, during a longer stay in Italy, he created his first multi-perspective architectural landscapes, which represent a new beginning in Kanoldt's work that would ultimately make him one of the most important representatives of New Objectivity. [AR]