Balders dood
Medium
etching
Dimensions
106; 166
About this artwork
Balder ligt dood op de grond te midden van de droevig kijkende Nanna en Hoder. Achter Hoder staan de Walkuren. Vanuit de grot kijkt Thor toe. Boven de grot liggen Freya en Odin verdrietig op een wolk.
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...