Götz
Medium
etching
Dimensions
164; 103
About this artwork
Vervaardigd voor Goethe's vertelling 'Götz von Berlichingen'. Uitgegeven in: Goethe's Schriften. 4 dln. Leipzig: Georg Joachim Göschen, 1787, dl. 2.
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...