Mannelijke bedienden en hun werkgevers
Medium
etching
Dimensions
128; 80
About this artwork
height 128 mm x width 80 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's etching *Mannelijke bedi en hun werkgevers*Male Servants and Their), created in 1780, offers a glimpse into 18th-century European domestic life. Measuring just 128 mm high by 80 mm wide, this intimate print exemplifies Chodowie's mastery as a German engraver and illustrator, was renowned for his detailed depictions of everyday social interactions. Working in the late Rococo and early Enlightenment era, he produced thousands of etchings that captured the nuances of bourgeois and aristocratic society in Berlin and beyond. The title suggests a scene highlighting class ...
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...