Das Gespenst / Rhijnsolt u. Lucia
Medium
etching
Dimensions
124; 104
About this artwork
verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a leading Polish-German artist of the Enlightenment era, created *Das Gespenst /ijnsolt u. Lucia* in 1775. This intimate etching, measuring just 104 mm by 124 mm, captures dramatic moment likely drawn from literature—a ghostly apparition involving the characters Rhijnsolt and. Chodowiecki, director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, was renowned for his thousands of prints illustrating moral tales, novels, and plays by authors like Shakespeare and Goethe, blending Rococo elegance with emerging Neoclassical clarity. Etching allowed Chodowiecki to achieve exquisite detail ...
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...