Lanassa en Palmira in gesprek
Medium
etching
Dimensions
113; 71
About this artwork
height 113 mm x width 71 mm
Art Historical Context
**Lanassa en Palmira in** is a delicate etching by Danielus Chodowiecki, created in 1782. just 113 mm high by 71 mm wide, this intimate print captures a moment of conversation between two figures, Lanassa and Palmira,oking the refined social exchanges of 18th-century Europe. Chodowiecki, a prolific Polish-German artist (1726–1801) and director of the Berlin Academy of Arts, was renowned for his thousands of small-scale etchings that illustrated literature, moral tales, and everyday life during the Enlightenment era. As an etching, the work showcases Chodowiecki's mastery of the intaglio techn...
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...