Working from an elevated vantage point on an upper floor of the apartment building at Paniersplatz 11, Johann Adam Klein portrays a broad vista of Nuremberg during the Biedermeier era, giving the onlooker the view from a south-facing window of his apartment. He thus records his own personal look at Nuremberg, away from the city's famed landmarks. The towers of the Lorenzkirche, and in front of it the ridge turret of the Frauenkirche, are visible only in the distance. If you look closely, you can also see the tips of the Rathaus towers and the east choir roof of St. Sebald. A stranger may well have found the view uninteresting. But here Klein documents his daily vista of the city. He might thus have also been engaging in part in the Biedermeier era's general cult of mementos – the effort to preserve keepsakes, for the future, of people, fleeting moments and encountered places.
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