Grootmoeder Catharine omhelst Rudeli
Medium
etching
Dimensions
71; 65
About this artwork
plaatrand: hoogte 71 mm x breedte 65 mm
Art Historical Context
**Grootmoeder Catharine omhelst Rudeli** (Grandmother Catharine Embraces Rudeli), a delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chowiecki from 1781, captures heartfelt moment of familial tenderness. This intimate scene, measuring just 71 mm high by 65 mm wide, depicts an elderly grandmother affectionately hugging a young child named Rudeli, ev the warmth of generational bonds in 18th-century European life. Chodowie, a prolific German printmaker and director of the Berlin Academy of Arts was renowned for his thousands of small-scale etchings that illustrated books, moral tales, and everyday vignettes....
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...