Bojokal en Avitus in gesprek over de verdeling van het land
Medium
etching
Dimensions
156; 223
About this artwork
height 223 mm x width 156 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodcki, a prolific Polish-German artist and director of the Berlin Academy Arts, created *Bojokal en Av in gesprek over de ver van het land* in1785. This etching measuring 223 mm high by 156 mm wide, exemplifies Chodowiecki's mastery of small-scale printmaking during the late Rococo and emerging Neoclassical periods. Renowned for illustrating books, moral tales, and historical vignettes, he produced thousands of such works, making art accessible to a wide audience affordable reproductions. The title, translating from Dutch as "Bojokal and Avitus in Conversation about the Divi...
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...