Germania offert bloemen aan een standbeeld van Flora
Medium
etching
Dimensions
107; 75
About this artwork
plaatrand: hoogte 107 mm x breedte 75 mm
Art Historical Context
**Germania Offers Flowers to a Statue of** *Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, 1790, etching, 107 × 75 mmDaniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific German artist of Polish descent active in Berlin during the late Enlightenment, crafted this delicate etching as one of his many intricate miniature prints. The scene depicts Germania, the allegorical female figure representing Germany, tenderly offering flowers to a statue Flora, the Roman goddess of flowers and. Rendered in fine lines on a small plate (107 mm high by 75 mm wide), it exemplifies Chodowiecki's mastery of etching—a technique where acid bites int...
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...