Portret van Ludwig Hölty
Medium
etching
Dimensions
97; 60
About this artwork
blad: hoogte 97 mm x breedte 60 mm
Art Historical Context
Welcome to our virtual gallery, where we spotlight *Portret van Ludwig Hölty*, a delicate etching by Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki from 1777. Measuring just 97 mm high by 60 mm wide, this intimate portrait captures the likeness of Ludwig Heinrich Christoph Hölty, a beloved German poet who died young in 1776 at age 28. Chodowiecki, a prolific Polish-German artist based in Berlin, was renowned for his thousands of etchings that brought Enlightenment-era figures to life in affordable, reproducible prints. Created in the late Rococo period transitioning to Neoclassicism, the work reflects Chodowiec...
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...