Joachim Tielke
Joachim Tielke (* October 14, 1641 in Königsberg, † January 19, 1719 in Hamburg ) was a German instrument maker. Tielke among the most important sounds and Violenmachern his time.
Life
Tielke was born as the second son of Judge Gottfried Tielke (I). In 1663 he began to study medicine at the University of Leiden in 1664 and finished in addition the subject of philosophy. 1667, he married Catharina Fleischer, the daughter of a Hamburg-based instrument maker; In 1669 he acquired the Hamburg citizenship. In the same year he produced his earliest dated instrument, a viola da gamba. 1671 the first born of seven children: Gottfried ( III), as the successor to August Kühnel as court musician in Kassel found a job later. 1719 celebrated the couple Tielke the golden wedding, to the more solid writings were written. Two years later, Joachim Tielke in the Hamburg Church of St. Nicholas is buried (his grave is after the great fire of 1842 and did not receive the devastation of 1943).
Work
Joachim Tielke has produced almost all types of plucked and painted instruments of his time in his workshop. The publication of Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig lists 169 tools and fragments: sounds, Mandoras, Angelique, guitars, Hamburg Cithrinchen, pocket squares, violins and a cello, viol d' amore, Barytons and viol da gamba. The Tielke ascribed bows are not authentic.
Overall, the oeuvre Joachim Tielkes is one of the largest after Antonio Stradivari. Has acquired fame primarily because of the high quality, often grandiose decoration of its instruments Tielke; it served him mainly Dutch prints, the Amorum Emblemata of Otto van Veen from the year 1608 and a series of engravings by Cornelis Danckerts by Hendrick de Keyser. Various old and younger writers and musicians also praise the tonal qualities of the instruments Tielkes, especially the viol da gamba.
A question that is often discussed is the contribution by the industrial arts Joachim Tielkes to with his name signed instruments. Everything indicates that Tielke other craftsman busy, etc. provided him with marquetry, carved heads to entire instruments; this he has provided in most cases with his own label. Nevertheless, he is rightly called an instrument maker, for the organization of the workshop, their representation to city and guilds, the purchase of materials, the quality verification of deliveries by commissioned artisans, providing customer support, planning ikongraphischer motives or even programs on the instruments and possibly even the design of vines and flowers in the marquetry - all these works make him an entrepreneur, as is amply documented in the history of art (for example, Peter Paul Rubens).
As successor in the workshop Tielkes his great-nephew Jacob Heinrich Philosophy is to be considered to find work in the style of the Tielkes with its own signature ( particularly characteristic of the viola da gamba 1745 in the St. Petersburg collection ) are.
Besides Joachim Tielke his older brother Gottfried instrument has operated. The bass of 1662 ( Museum of Musical Instruments, University of Leipzig ) and a ( gitarrisierte ) Lute ( Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg) are also known. After studying theology and ordination as a priest in Legitten in East Prussia, he has continued to trade with instruments.