Reizen in oost-India
Medium
etching
Dimensions
63; 94
About this artwork
height 94 mm x width 63 mm
Art Historical Context
Daniel Nikolaus Chodowie's *Reizen in oost-* (Travels in East India), etching from 1786, captures the era's fascination with global exploration. Measuring just 94 mm high by 63 mm wide, intimate print exemplifies Chodowiecki's as a German Rococo artist and prolific illustrator. Renowned for over 2,000 etchings that adorned books and periodicals, he often depicted narrative scenes from history, daily life, and exotic voyages, blending meticulous detail with moralistic undertones suited to the Enlightenment's intellectual curiosity. Created during the height of European colonial expansion, the ...
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...