Rose Monday procession on the Neumarkt
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| Rose Monday procession on the Neumarkt |
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| Simon Meister , 1836 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 100 × 135 cm |
| Cologne City Museum , Cologne |
Rose Monday procession on Neumarkt is a painting from 1836 attributed to the German painter Simon Meister . Today it is owned by the Cologne City Museum .
Image description
The picture is 135 centimeters wide and 100 centimeters high and shows the Rose Monday procession on Cologne's Neumarkt . In the foreground the floats and foot groups participating in the parade are shown, in the background the Romanesque basilica of St. Apostles and the contemporary renovation of the Neumarkt can be seen. The procession is led by " Kölsche Boor " and the Rote Funken , who appear as successors to the Cologne city soldiers and at the same time as parody of the uniforms of the Prussian army .
The ships of fools occupy a dominant position, with which, with reference to Sebastian Brant's late medieval work The Ship of Fools, the vices of contemporaries are targeted. The motto of the Cologne Carnival in 1836 was "Philosopher's Stone"; On the left below the center of the picture is the carriage of the chairman of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee , Peter Leven, in which a large stone is being turned. The search for the Philosopher's Stone is also a theme on other floats. On the right below the center of the picture, hero Carneval (later called Prince ) can be seen on his wagon. On the left in the picture is a lion carriage with the equestrian general in the Thirty Years' War Johann von Werth , on the right in the front a steaming device can be seen with which the first test drives with steam tractors on the macadam road between Cologne and Bonn set up for this purpose are to be made fun of.
background
After the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee was founded in 1823 and the Carnival Monday parades were centrally organized, a phase of the Cologne Carnival began, which is known as the "romantic carnival" and lasted until 1843. While the first trains were still held in historicizing disguises, reference was made increasingly to current events in the 1830s. The painting represents an important testimony to the Cologne Carnival of 1836, for which there are only sparse written sources. The lithograph Der Maskenzug im Cologne Carneval 1836 by the Cologne lithographer David Levy Elkan has been preserved, in which the same groups appear as in the painting. It is therefore certain that the painter wanted a realistic representation of the Rose Monday procession.
literature
- Heiko Steuer : Rose Monday procession on the Neumarkt . In: Horst Keller (editor): Art, Culture Cologne. Volume 2: New acquisitions by Cologne museums over thirty years . Greven, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7743-0171-9 , p. 194 f.
Remarks
- ↑ inventory number KSM 1973/29; acquired in 1973 from "Friends and Patrons of Cologne Customs"