Biddende kerkgangers
Medium
etching
Dimensions
95; 59
About this artwork
Interieur van een kerk met mannen en vrouwen in gebed op 'geaffecteerde' wijze . Enkele kerkgangers hebben hun blik overdreven naar boven gericht. Voor de kerkbank een persoon in diepe kniebuiging. Rechtsboven genummerd: 5.
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...