Twee scènes uit Bürger's Gedichten
Medium
etching
Dimensions
158; 195
About this artwork
Vijfde en zesde scène uit een serie van acht scènes die de gedichten van Gottfried August Bürger illustreren. De scènes werden op twee platen geëtst. Een latere staat van deze serie is gebruikt in: Bürger, Gottfried August. Göttingen: Johann Christian Dieterich, 1778.
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...