Raimund Faltz

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Raimund Faltz

Raimund Faltz (born July 4, 1658 in Stockholm , † May 21, 1703 in Berlin ) was a Swedish court medalist , wax boss , ivory carver and miniature painter at the Prussian court.

Life

Faltz was the son of the goldsmith Reymumd Faltz and his wife Susanna Hartman. Having lost both parents at the age of ten, he was left on his own from an early age. He first learned the trade of goldsmith in Stockholm and then turned to copperplate engraving . On a trip that took him from 1680 to Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lübeck, Augsburg and Strasbourg, and finally to Paris in 1683, he deepened his knowledge as a copper engraver . He completed his artistic training in Paris - at that time under Louis XIV. A leading center for medal art (alongside Stockholm ). For some time he worked there for the medalist Du Cheron.

Since 1688 Faltz was in the service of Brandenburg and in 1690 was court medalist at the court of Friedrich III. von Brandenburg , for which Raimund Faltz created a "histoire métallique" that could compete with the works at the courts of Dresden and Paris. He recorded the coronation ceremony for King of Prussia in 1701 on medallions, as well as the buildings commissioned for the emerging Berlin. "... a medal (is) a prince's longest and largest monument ... and (can) last as long ... as the world will be ..." were his words when he tried to get an order in Mecklenburg in 1696.

Raimund Faltz died on May 21, 1703 at the age of 44 in Berlin. He bequeathed his wax models to "his" King Friedrich I. He was buried in the St. Petrikirche in Berlin. The sculptor Balthasar Permoser made a tomb for him, which was destroyed in a fire in the church in 1730. At the king's request, the Gotha artist Christian Wermuth was to become a Prussian court medalist, but he refused.

On the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the death of this artist, who was one of the greatest medalists of his time, the Berlin Münzkabinett paid tribute to him in 2003 at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin with an exhibition that presented his life and work for the first time.

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  1. ↑ Raimund Faltz . In: Herman Hofberg, Frithiof Heurlin, Viktor Millqvist, Olof Rubenson (eds.): Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-K . Albert Bonniers Verlag, Stockholm 1906, p. 326 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ Friedrich Nicolai : News from the builders, sculptors, copper engravers, painters, plasterers and other artists who have stayed in and around Berlin from the thirteenth century until now and whose works of art are still partly there. (Appendix to the description of the royal royal cities of Berlin and Potsdam ). Berlin and Stettin 1786. p. 101.
personal data
SURNAME Faltz, Raimund
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Faltz, Raymond; Faltz, Reymondt; Faltz, Raymund; Faltz, Reymund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Medalist, court medalist, wax boss, ivory carver and miniature painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1658
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH May 21, 1703
Place of death Berlin