Joachim Martin Falbe

Joachim Martin Falbe, self-portrait, 1761

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

Life

Joachim Martin Falbe began his apprenticeship with Johann Harper in 1730 and completed his painting training from 1733 with Antoine Pesne , whose master class he was. At Pesne's mediation, Falbe got a job at the court of Prince August Ludwig von Anhalt-Koethen , who appointed him his court painter when he left in 1739.

Back in Prussia, he was awarded the title of royal court painter in the same year. From 1756 to 1782 Falbe was an honorary member of the Berlin Royal Prussian Academy of Arts and Mechanical Sciences , Section for the Fine Arts. In addition, he carried the news of various artists compiled by Abraham Humbert , some of whom lived and worked in Berlin from [the] time of Friedrich Wilhelm the Great [...] and the kings who followed him [...] until his time further out, which were published in 1768 in Leipzig by Carl Heinrich von Heineken under the title Messages from Artists and Art Matters in the first volume.

Joachim Martin Falbe worked in Antoine Pesne's workshop for a total of 15 years. The two court painters were united by a close friendship and mutual respect that was so high that Pesne entrusted him with the completion of his unfinished paintings on his deathbed in 1757. Falbe mainly painted portraits, in which he portrayed the people in a bourgeois and realistic manner, following the taste of the time, in contrast to Pesne, who was the master of representative courtly portraits. In addition to the excellent reproduction of the material, Falbe's gaze was focused entirely on personality - this sense of character is an essential feature of his portraiture.

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

Works (selection)

• The Holy Family with Two Angels , 1742
• Count of Lüttichauum , 1745
• The vase with the goat's head , etching, 1750
• The vase with the leopard skin , etching, 1750
• Marthe de Rocoulle , the educator of Frederick the Great ( Sanssouci Palace , Potsdam)
• Old woman with a prayer book in her hands , etching, around 1750/52
• Portrait of an old lady , around 1755 ( Germanisches Nationalmuseum , Nuremberg)
• Field Marshal Johann von Lewald , around 1760
• Self-portrait, 1761 ( Grunewald Hunting Lodge , Berlin)
• Banker David Splitgerber , around 1764 (for Gebr. Schickler , Berlin)
• Friedrich the Great (for the meeting room of the magistrate in the city hall of Berlin)
• A noble couple , 1766
• Altar painting with the Gethsemane story in the Evangelical Church in Lübkow (today OT von Penzlin )
• Heinrich von Cocceji with his wife Maria Salome
• Etchings: heads, a series of 6 garden vases, 2 large hippocamps

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  Old woman with a prayer book in her hands , around 1750/52

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  Portrait of an old lady , around 1755

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  Lady in a lace cape, around 1765

literature

• Joachim Martin Falbe . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 36, Saur, Munich a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-598-22776-0 , p. 322.
• Eckart Berckenhagen: Joachim Martin Falbe. In: Journal of the German Association for Art History. Deutscher Verlag für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1989, Volume 43, Issue 1, pp. 94-107.
• Hans Vollmer : Falbe, Joachim Martin . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 11 : Erman-Fiorenzo . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1915, p. 210–211 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).

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