Joachim Martin Falbe

Joachim Martin Falbe (* June 11, 1709 in Berlin, † March 22, 1782 ) was a German portrait painter, etcher and draftsman and Prussian court painter.

Life

Joachim Martin Falbe started his apprenticeship in 1730 at Johann Harper and completed the training painter from 1733 Antoine Pesne whose master student he was. On Pesnes agency Dun was employed at the court of Prince August Ludwig of Anhalt- Köthen, who appointed him on his departure in 1739 to his court painter.

Back in Prussia, he was awarded the royal court painter in the same year. From 1756 to 1782 was Falbe honorary member of the Berlin Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Sciences mechanical, Section for the Fine Arts. He also led the collated by Abraham Humbert messages from different artists, which Friedrich Wilhelm, who gelebet and worked in Berlin from [ the ] time of the Great [... ] and those who followed him kings, and partly still alive [ ... ] up in his time further out, which were published in 1768 in Leipzig by Carl Heinrich von Heineken under the title messages from artists and art stuff in the first volume.

Joachim Martin Falbe worked for 15 years in Antoine Pesnes workshop. The two court painter to a close friendship and mutual esteem that was so high that it Pesne 1757 on his deathbed entrusted the completion of his unfinished paintings. Dun mainly painted portraits in which he. Persons, following the prevailing taste, civil and realistically represented, contrary Pesne, dominated the representative courtly portrait illustration In addition to the excellent material reproduction Falbe's gaze was directed entirely to the personality - this sense of full of character is an essential train his portraiture.

After Falbe's portrait paintings Daniel Berger, Johann Ernst Gericke and Georg Friedrich Schmidt stabbed engravings. Etchings he made only a few. He erased some heads in the style of Rembrandt, the reproduced human states of mind in his works. He also etched in the 1750s drawings by Rembrandt and Christian Wilhelm Dietrich.

Works (selection)

  • The Holy Family With Two Angels, 1742
  • Count of Lüttichauum, 1745
  • The vase with the goat head, etching, 1750
  • The vase with the leopard skin, etching, 1750
  • Marthe de Rocoulle, the teacher of Frederick the Great ( Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam )
  • Old woman with a prayer book in her hands, etching, c 1750/52
  • Portrait of an old lady, circa 1755 ( Germanic National Museum, Nuremberg)
  • Field Marshal Johann von Lewald, 1760
  • Banker David Splitgerber, about 1764 ( for Gebr Schickler, Berlin)
  • Frederick the Great ( for the boardroom of the Municipal Council in the town hall of Berlin)
  • A noble pair, 1766
  • Altarpiece with the Gethsemane story in the Protestant church Lübkow (now OT of Penzlin )
  • Heinrich Cocceji with wife Maria Salome
  • Etchings: Heads, a series of 6 garden vases, 2 large hippocamps

Portrait of an old lady, circa 1755

Lady in lace cape, circa 1765

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