Joachim Tielke

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Joachim Tielke (born October 14, 1641 in Königsberg , † September 19, 1719 in Hamburg ) was a German instrument maker . Tielke was one of the most important lute and viola makers of his time.

Life

Tielke was born the second son of the judge Gottfried Tielke (I) and was baptized on October 16, 1641. In 1663 he began studying medicine at the University of Leiden and in 1664 also took the subject of philosophy. In 1667 he married Catharina Fleischer, the daughter of an instrument maker based in Hamburg; In 1669 he acquired Hamburg citizenship . In the same year he made his earliest dated instrument, a viola da gamba . In 1671 the first of seven children was born: Gottfried (III), who later found a job as the successor to August Kühnel as court musician in Kassel. In 1719, the Tielke couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, for which several commemorative publications were written. Two years later, Joachim Tielke was buried in the St. Nikolai Church in Hamburg (his grave has not been preserved after the great fire of 1842 and the destruction of 1943).

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Viol from the workshop of Joachim Tielke, 1673.
Baroque guitar (1703).

Joachim Tielke produced almost all types of plucked and bowed instruments of his time in his workshop. The publication by Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig from 2011 lists 169 instruments and fragments: lutes , mandoras , angeliques , guitars , Hamburger Cithrinchen , pochettes , violins and a violoncello , viole d'amore , barytons and viole da gamba. Since then, four other instruments have become known to Tielke. The bows attributed to him are not authentic.

Overall, Joachim Tielke's oeuvre is one of the largest after Antonio Stradivari's . Tielke has gained fame primarily for the high-quality, often grandiose decoration, especially with inlays , of his instruments; he mainly used Dutch prints for this, such as the Amorum Emblemata by Otto van Veen from 1608 and a series of copperplate engravings by Cornelis Danckerts after Hendrick de Keyser . Various old and young authors as well as musicians also praise the tonal qualities of Tielke's instruments, especially those of the viole da gamba.

One question that has been widely discussed is that of Joachim Tielke's own manual contribution to the instruments signed with his name. Everything indicates that Tielke employed other craftsmen who supplied him with marquetry , carved heads, etc., including entire instruments; in most cases he has provided these with his own label. Nevertheless, he is rightly called an instrument maker, because the organization of the workshop, its representation vis-à-vis the city and guilds, the purchase of materials, the quality inspection of deliveries by contracted craftsmen, the customer care, the planning of iconographic motifs or even programs on the instruments and possibly even the design of the tendrils and flowers in the marquetry - all of these works make him an entrepreneur , as has been documented many times in art history (for example for Peter Paul Rubens ).

His great-nephew Jakob Heinrich Goldt is to be regarded as the successor in the Tielke workshop, from whom works in the style of Tielke with his own signature can be found (particularly characteristic the viola da gamba 1745 in the St. Petersburg collection).

In addition to Joachim Tielke, his older brother Gottfried also built instruments. The double bass from 1662 ( Museum for Musical Instruments of the University of Leipzig ) and a (guitar-powered) lute ( Museum for Art and Crafts Hamburg ) are known. After studying theology and being ordained a pastor in Legitten in East Prussia , he continued to trade in instruments.

literature

  • Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig: Joachim Tielke. Ornate baroque musical instruments. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-07078-3 .
  • Günther Hellwig: Joachim Tielke. A Hamburg lute and viola maker of the baroque era. Verlag Erwin Bochinsky (previously: Verlag Das Musikinstrument), Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-62-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Willibald Leo Freiherr von Lütgendorff : The violin and lute makers from the Middle Ages to the present. Heinrich Keller, Frankfurt am Main 1904, p. 664. ( Google Books ).
  2. ↑ obtained in the Musée Instrumental, Brussels, No. 1430.
  3. ↑ see online vita of Joachim Tielke
  4. ^ Friedemann and Barbara Hellwig: Joachim Tielke - Artful Musical Instruments of the Baroque , Deutscher Kunstverlag Berlin / Munich, 2011.
  5. ↑ Joachim Tielke's instruments. on: tielke-hamburg.de
  6. ↑ Joachim Tielke's bows. on: tielke-hamburg.de
personal data
SURNAME Tielke, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1641
PLACE OF BIRTH Koenigsberg
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1719
Place of death Hamburg