Christus en Barabbas voor Pontius Pilatus

About this artwork

Prent uit: Lavater, Johann Caspar. Jesus Messias. Oder die Evangelien und die Apostelgeschichte in Gesängen. 4 dln. Winterthur: s.n., 1783-1786, dl. 3.

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...