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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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He is known as the most important engraver in north-east Europe in the mid-17th century. His images of well-known contemporary personalities can be found in the most important European collections. However there is no existing portrait of the engraver himself. Images produced by Franciszek Orłowski, Antoni Oleszczyński and Aleksander Regulski in the 19th century are pure fantasy. He was born around 1610 or 1619 in Danzig, but the origins of his family remain in the dark. On the basis of his reformed confession it seems highly improbable that he was a German. Nonetheless it is certain that he was committed to the Polish Crown because of the additional name “Polonus” on many of his engravings.

 

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“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.
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National Library in Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Public Domain

Further reading:

J.C. [Julius Caesar] Block: Jeremias Falck. Sein Leben und seine Werke. Mit vollständigem alphabetischen und chronologischen Register sämmtlicher Blätter sowie Reproductionen nach des Künstlers besten Stichen, Danzig, Leipzig, Wien, 1890

Oskar Leistikow: Das wahre Todesdatum von Jeremias Falck, in: Das Münster. Zeitschrift für christliche Kunst und Wissenschaft, 6. Jahrgang, München 1953, p. 103

Editha Holm: Falck, Jeremias, in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 4 (1959), p. 749; Online version: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd123429145.html

K. Zabuska: Falck, Jeremias, in: Saur Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, vol. 36, München, Leipzig 2003, pp. 339-342

 

Online:

europeana collections: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/de/search?q=Jeremias+Falck

Virtual engraving cabinet: http://www.virtuelles-kupferstichkabinett.de/de/search/ (Search for: Falck, Jeremiasz)

 

“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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National Library in Warsaw/Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, Public Domain
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