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Jeremias Falck

“Christ being Mocked with a Crown of Thorns”, ca. 1645. Engraving, 57.1 x 42.6 cm. Based on a painting by Anthonis van Dyck (1599-1641), published by Herman Weyen in Paris. Indicated at the bottom: Ant. van Dijck pinxit, J. Falck fecit.

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  • Catalogue of work

    J.C.Block: Jeremias Falck. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Danzig, Leipzig, Wien 1890
  • Livre de Portraiture, 1641

    Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Il Guercino (1591-1666): Livre de Portraiture, Paris 1641, engravings by Jeremias Falck (Block 172).
  • Blumenwerke, 1662

    “Verscheyde Nieuwe Tulpen, en andere Bloemen” and “Novae et exquisitae florum icones“, with engravings by Jeremias Falck, Hamburg 1662, published by Frederik de Wit in Amsterdam (Block 64, 65), bound ...
  • After a painting by Justus van Egmont, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • After a painting by Justus van Egmont, British Museum, London.
  • After a painting by Justus van Egmont, British Museum, London.
  • After a painting by Justus van Egmont, British Museum, London.
  • After a painting by Justus van Egmont, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • Based on an unknown painting, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on an unknown work, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • Akbar the Great of von India, based on a painting by Claude Vignon, British Museum, London.
  • Based on an unknown work, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on an unknown work, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Joachim von Sandrart, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Joachim von Sandrart, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Joachim von Sandrart, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After an unknown work, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an unknown work, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an unknown work, British Museum, London.
  • After an outline by Claude Vignon, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on a work by Claude Vignon, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on a work by von Claude Vignon, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • Based on a work by Claude Vignon, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • After a painting by Jacques Stella, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Guido Reni, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on a painting by an unknown Master, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on a work by Pieter van Mol, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on a work by Pieter van Mol, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on a work by Pieter van Mol, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on a work by Pieter van Mol, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • After Adolf Boy, National Museum of Warsaw/Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie.
  • After Adolf Boy, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • Describing the Gate of Honour by Andreas Scato, Danzig 1646, based on an unknown work, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • For a book by Jerzy Ossoliński: Orationes (English: Orations), Danzig 1647, University Library, Danzig/Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego.
  • For Johannes Hevelius: Selenography of the Description of the Moon, Danzig 1647.
  • After a painting by Helmich van Tweenhuysen II., Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Presumably based on a painting by Govaert Flinck, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Salomon Wegner, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck (or Matthäus Merian), Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by David Beck, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on an unknown painting, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • After a painting by David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl.
  • Based on an unknown painting, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • Based on an unknown painting, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Daniel Schultz, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Hendrick Munnichhoven.
  • After a painting by Daniel Schultz, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Daniel Schultz, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Daniel Schultz, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • Based on an unknown painting, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • Based on an unknown painting, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Daniel Schultz, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • Based on an unknown painting, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Bartholomäus Strobel, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • Based on an unknown painting, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • Based on an unknown painting, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on an unknown painting, Austrian National Library, Vienna.
  • After a painting by Matthias Stomer, British Museum, London.
  • After a painting by Lorenzo Lotto, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Andrea Schiavone, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • After a painting by Andrea del Sarto, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Public Domain.
  • After a painting by Bonifazio Veronese, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Jacopo Bassano, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • After a painting by Johann Liss, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Domenico Fetti, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
  • After a painting by Bernardo Strozzi, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
  • After a painting by Giorgione, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • After a painting by Johann Liss, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Guercino, Teylers Museum, Haarlem.
  • Based on a work by a Dutch Master, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.
  • After a painting by Abraham Bloemaert, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • After a painting by Adolf Boy, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Gerd Dittmers, National Library of Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie.
  • After a painting by Gerd Dittmers, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
  • for Johannes Hevelius: Machina coelestis, Danzig 1673.
  • Title page for the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • The letter N from the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, ca. 1662. Engraving after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff (ca. 1600-ca. 1675), 20.8 x 17.7 cm, signed bottom right: J.F. sculp: (Block 63).
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
  • From the series Libellus novus elementorum latinorum, after a template by Johann Christian Bierpfaff.
“Christ being Mocked with a Crown of Thorns”, ca. 1645
“Christ being Mocked with a Crown of Thorns”, ca. 1645. Engraving, 57.1 x 42.6 cm. Based on a painting by Anthonis van Dyck (1599-1641), published by Herman Weyen in Paris. Indicated at the bottom: Ant. van Dijck pinxit, J. Falck fecit.

According to the Danzig City Councillor and author of a catalogue of works published in 1890 in Danzig, Julius C. Block, Jeremias Falck was “born in a German city, a German artist […] But merit should primarily go to our eastern neighbours, the Poles, for finding Falck’s work through the most diligent and continuous research and publicity. It must have been this that caused them to think that Falck was a Polish artist. That said he did sign his own works with the name “Polonus”, and others however with “Gedanensins”, as well as with “Sueciae Calcographus” on some engravings he completed in Stockholm” (PDF, p. 12 f.) As a rule the German variation of his name, Jeremias, (in Polish Jeremiasz) is used. But of course, Block was well aware that Falck was not a member of the Lutheran faith but committed to the reformed faith. This does not mean that we can exclude any German origins: it simply makes them less likely. In 1646 and 1649 he was inscribed as a godfather into the baptismal register of the reformed Church of St Peter and Paul in Danzig, the main church of the local Calvinists. In 1650 he was married there to Anna, the daughter of a merchant by the name of Arnold Mercator. And in 1671 he was laid to rest beneath a grave plate in the church. (PDF, p. 7 f., 12).[1]

From the mid-16th century the reformed confession spread from Switzerland into a huge number of countries in Europe due to the reformed Protestant influence of Ulrich Zwingli (1484-1531) and Johannes Calvin (1509-1564). The first reformed parishes in Danzig were set up by a few hundred citizens from the Netherlands who hade fled between 1567 and 1570 from the religious persecution by the Spanish Vice-Regent in the Netherlands, Fernando Herzog von Alba (1507-1582), and settled as foreigners outside the city, amongst others in Neugarten. In 1587 there were as many as 14 Calvinist preachers active in Danzig churches. From 1600 onwards the Dutch began to celebrate Holy Communion in the Church of the Holy Trinity under a chaplain from St. Peters Church. The Prussian reformed parish settled here during this time. .[2]  The ancestors of Jeremias can be traced back to a certain Franz Falck, who died in Thorn in 1590.[3]

In 1646 and 1649 Jeremias became a godfather of children who simultaneously had Dutch godparents. A note in the baptismal register in St Peters Church, dated 18 September 1646, mentions that he was the godfather of a child belonging to his brother Hans. Further godparents were Anna Hondius, the daughter of a Dutch engraver Willem Hondius (1597-1652/58), who had been living in Danzig since 1636, and Anna Mercator (1620-1672), the daughter of the merchant Arnold Mercator († 1641) and great-granddaughter of the famous cartographer from Flanders, Gerhard Mercator (1512-1594). Jeremias was presumably trained by Willem Hondius. On 25 February he replaced Arndt Mercator as the godfather of the son of Peter and Elizabeth Bex, (PDF, p. 7). In the following year, on 9 June 1650 he married Anna Mercator (PDF, p. 8). When we consider that communion was taken at all these family religious occasions and that this was not possible in an interdenominational fashion, it seems obvious that Falck also came from a Dutch family. Indeed Hans Falck, by profession a cutler, is registered as living “in Neugarten“ (PDF, p. 7). Later generations of the Falcks remained true to the reformed faith and the church of St Peter and Paul. One of these was the parish wigmaker and provost of the poor, Johann Daniel Falk the Elder (1737-1808), who married a woman from a Huguenot family from the French reformed community. Another was their son, the lay theologian, writer and composer of hymns, Johannes Daniel Falk (1768-1826). Both of them clearly felt a bond with the German middle and upper-class residents of Danzig.[4]

 

[1] For the date of Falck’s death Block quotes the gravestone book of the church of St Peter and St Paul in Danzig: “1677. On 7 February after cleaning the grave of Herr Hans Minckhaus, Jeremias Falck was buried there in the choir and by the altar, stone ‘Nr. 4’.” That said, in 1953 the genealogist Oskar Leistikow discovered that Falck had already died before the marriage of his daughter Susanna Maria in 1676 in the Market Church in Hanover. It has been shown that if you look again at the gravestone book of the church of St Peter in Danzig, that they year can be interpreted in two ways. Hence we must assume that the year in which he died must have been 1671.

[2] Erwin Pritzel: Geschichte der Reformierten Gemeinde zu St. Petri-Pauli in Danzig 1570-1940, Danzig 1940. pp. 9-16

[3] Johannes Demandt: Johannes Daniel Falk. Sein Weg von Danzig über Halle nach Weimar (1768-1799) = Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Pietismus, 36, Göttingen 1999, p. 17, note 7 (further reading is also given there)

[4] Ibid., pp. 17-19