Joachim Martin Falbe

This article is about the German painter. For the French diarist, see Joachim Martin.

Self-portrait, 1761

Joachim Martin Falbe (11 June 1709 – 22 March 1782) was a German portrait painter.

Biography

Born in Berlin in 1709, Falbe was instructed at first by Harper and later by A. Pesne. At Pesne's suggestion Falbe was appointed court painter of Prince August Ludwig von Anhalt-Köthen in 1739.

Several etchings based on Rembrandt's paintings, or in the master's style, are attributed to him. Some extant copies are signed with Falbe's monogram have survived. In 1764 he was elected a member of the Academy at Berlin, in which city he died in 1782.

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  Portrait of an old lady, 1755, now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum
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  Portrait of an unknown lady, ca. 1764, now in Friedrichsfelde Palace, Friedrichsfelde
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  Old woman with a prayer book, etching from ca. 1752

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Bryan, Michael (1886). "Falbe, Joachim Martin". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.