Jong stel omhelst elkaar
Medium
etching
Dimensions
109; 64
About this artwork
height 109 mm x width 64 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie, a prolific Prussian artist and engraver (1726–1801), captures a tender moment in *Jong stel omhel elkaar* ("Young Couple Embracing"), an etching from 1779 This intimate scene depicts a youthful pair locked in a loving embrace, reflecting the sentimental spirit of the late Enlightenment era. Chodowiecki, director of the Berlin Academy of, was renowned for his thousands of small-scale prints illustrating everyday life, moral tales, and fashionable society, bridging Rococo elegance with emerging Neoclassical clarity. Measuring just 109 mm high by 64 mm wide, this delica...
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...