Hemelvaart van een vrouw
Medium
etching
Dimensions
58; 63
About this artwork
plaatrand: hoogte 58 mm x breedte 63 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific Polish-German artist and director of the Berlin Academy of, created *Hemelvaart van een vrouw* (Ascension of a Woman) 1785. This intimate etching measures just 58 mm high by 63 mm wide—precisely the size of the plate's edge—exemplifying Chodowiecki's mastery of miniature prints. Working in the late Rococo and early Neoclassical periods, he was renowned for over 2,000 etchings that captured moral, historical, and religious narratives with delicate line work and expressive detail, often for book illustrations that brought art to a wide audience. The title ev...
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...