Alexis en Hannchen bij de lindeboom
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
1770 - 1775
Medium
pen
Dimensions
90; 50
About this artwork
Illustratie voor 'Le Deserteur' van Jean-Michel Sedaine.
About the Artist
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki · 1726–1801
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki (1726–1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Polish-Huguenot descent who became the most celebrated graphic artist in 18th-century Germany. Born in Danzig (now Gdańsk), he created approximately 2,000 etchings that serve as an invaluable visual record of German bourgeois life during the Enlightenment. Largely self-taught, Chodowiecki moved to Berlin in 1743 and ach...