Hamlet en Ophelia

About this artwork

Hamlet, gespeeld door Johann Franz Hieronymus Brockmann, raadt Ophelia, gespeeld door Caroline Maximiliane Doebbelin, aan om in een nonnenklooster in te treden.

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...