Portret van Johann Heinrich Lavater op zijn doodsbed
Medium
etching
Dimensions
152; 135
About this artwork
Johann Heinrich Lavater, de vader van Johann Kaspar Lavater, stierf in 1774.
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...