Malkasten-Redoute

After the club decided to admit non-artists as well, it and its festivities quickly advanced to become a social hub of the city,[1] especially in the times of the Düsseldorfer Karneval.

What the Rosenmontagszüge (Rose Monday processions) were for Cologne, the masked balls on Carnival Saturdays represented in Düsseldorf - at least that's how the reporters in the local newspapers around 1900 liked to put it.

Then the carnival came to an end, as the last, often drunken mask wearers met pious churchgoers wearing the ash cross on their foreheads.

During the German revolutions of 1848–1849, in the course of which Düsseldorf citizens had formed a revolutionary vigilante group, all public demonstrations were therefore initially banned by the authorities for the carnival days in February 1849 as a precaution.

On 11 November 1849, the General Association of Carnival Friends (AVdK) awarded the certificate of honorary membership to the KVM and asked it to cooperate.

The painter, caricaturist and writer Carl Maria Seyppel, a president of the AVdK and the KVM, founded the "Committee for the Organisation of an Artistic Rosenmontagszug" in 1889.

One of the first mask feste took place in February 1852 under the theme "Cinderella's Wedding" in the Geislerschen Saal, from 1865 the Kaisersaal on Flinger Steinweg was the venue.

As in 1896 in "Die Narrenburg" (The Fool's Castle), in front of a decoration by Andreas Achenbach, who portrayed the prince, the court chancellor gave a speech from the throne that equated the artists' festival with art.

In the form of a festival play with a procession as an integral part of the carnival event, mainly episodes from the world of fairy tales were presented at the KVM redoubts until the beginning of the 1870s.

Towards the end of the 19th century, themes appeared that could be linked to specific historical events, such as "The Hussites before Naumburg 1432" and "Triumph of the Hansa".

The Malkasten Künstlerverein nevertheless celebrates a lavish Maskenempfang[9] and Ash Wednesday Hoppeditz funeral with traditional fish supper.