Twee toppen van gevels in de Bogenstrasze te Münster 1837 - 1903

Jan Striening created this pencil drawing of gabled facades in Münster's Bogenstrasse. The image presents an intriguing glimpse into the architectural and urban fabric of 19th-century Germany. The pencil drawing, with its focus on architectural detail, speaks to the 19th-century interest in the historical built environment. We see here the features of the streetscape in the Bogenstrasse with its historical associations. Münster's urban landscape would have reflected the city's complex history, from its medieval origins to its role in the Reformation and the Peace of Westphalia. In its time, the drawing might have appealed to the city's growing middle class, interested in civic pride. Historians look to such drawings as invaluable resources for understanding the historical context and the way in which urban environments grow and change. Art, in this sense, is always a product of the social forces and the institutions that shape it.