A woman stands in front of a shop window, with a child next to her. Both are staring at the display, spellbound. August Macke captured this scene in a watercolor and a painting in 1913. The painting is a little more muted in color, but appears far more intense: in the watercolor, the woman and child are almost absorbed by the shop window, which is split into large, prismatic areas of color. In the painting, Macke distinguishes them more clearly from the interior of the shop window. In this way, he confronts the figures more clearly with the shop window. The play with colors is what characterizes both works. On a trip to Paris in 1912, August Macke met Robert Delaunay. "[...] What I attach the greatest importance to is observing the movement of color," Delaunay wrote to Macke in the spring of 1913. Inspired by this, Macke also began to deal intensively with the reflection and refraction of light. His shop window paintings are an example of this. Whether in the version in the Städtische Galerie im Lenbach-Haus in Munich, the version in the Folkwang Museum in Essen from 1914 or on the sheet here from 1913: the figures concentrate on the display in the window and radiate great calm. The deliberate division of the images and the play with light underline this even more: on the left, leaves on a tree are directly exposed to sunlight. And on the right, the shielded natural light forms a contrast to the illuminated shop window.