Jeremias Falck

Jeremias Falck (also Jeremiah Falk, Jeremiah Falck in English, Jeremiasz Falck in Polish; * 1620 in Gdansk and Hamburg, † July 16, 1664 in Hamburg) was an engraver and engraver.

The students and staff of Wilhelm Hondius worked in Paris in 1639 and created images of allegories. He married, according to church documents of the Reformed St. Peter's Church on May 9, 1650 in Gdansk Anna Mercator ( Kramer ). His brother Hans Falck was Messerschmidt in Gdansk and is documented as a witness at the birth of a child of Jeremiah and Anna. According to the Ururenkels Herrmann Eugene Falk in a book in 1890 by JC Block no precise documents place of birth or year were available.

Falck then again worked abroad, in Sweden as a court engraver of Queen Christina of Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands (including Portrait of Willem Blaeu ) and 1655-64 in Hamburg, where he published 16 engravings with botanical motifs ( 1662). In all of his trips abroad, he created portraits of current kings, as well as portraits of various councilors and mayor of Danzig.

Back in Gdansk he sat around paintings by Georg Daniel Schultz. Almost all of the approximately three hundred works by Falck are known as " J. Falck sculp. " Excellent, some show more. Falck SRM Sueciae when he was permanently employed in Sweden. Georg Forster used Falck 's copper plates for printing the illustrations for the " Selenography 'of Johannes Hevelius and the" Orationes " of Georg Ossoliński, SRI Prince. The portraits Vladislav IV and Polish bishops are designated on the edge of the rectangle under the oval copper plate portraits with J. Falck Polonus left and Georg Förster right. Falck was Buried in 1677 in the Reformed St. Peter and Paul 's Church in Gdańsk.