Makart pageant
The Makart pageant on Sunday, April 27, 1879 in Vienna was officially called the pageant for the 25th anniversary of the marriage of the Most High Imperial Couple, organized by the capital and residence city of Vienna, and was part of the celebrations for the silver wedding anniversary of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth.
The Wilhelminian -style metropolis, which was in full swing, celebrated itself on this occasion. Art, science, trade, commerce, industry paraded, starting from the Prater, across the Jägerzeile (now Praterstrasse) and the newly laid out Vienna Ringstrasse . The forty groups with well over 2,000 participants who formed the historicizing costume parade in Renaissance style designed by the painter Hans Makart met with particular applause . Makart used Albrecht Dürer's illustrations for a Maximilians pageant ( Maximilian I's gate of honor ) as a model. The event benefited from the weather and attracted tens of thousands of onlookers. Numerous artists were involved in the preparation: The triumphal chariot on which the hunting king was enthroned came from the sculptor Zumbusch , who worked for the mining industry in Silbernagel . The floats of the artists and the railways also met with particular interest.
Individual evidence
- ^ The pageant of the city of Vienna. In: Die Presse , April 28, 1879, p. 2 (online at ANNO ).
Web links
- Website with contemporary echoes and images
- Triumphant show of Viennese citizens' hard work In: "Wiener Zeitung" of October 6, 2011, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7