Twee scènes uit Sebaldus Nothanker
1736 - 1801
Medium
etching
Dimensions
205; 167
About this artwork
Deze prenten behoren tot een serie prenten die het verhaal van Sebaldus Nothanker door Friedrich Nicolai illustreren. De tweede staat van deze serie werd gebruikt in: [Nicolai Friedrich]. Das Leben und die Meinungen des Herrn Magister Sebaldus Nothanker. Berlijn en Stettin: Friedrich Nicolai, 1773 [eerste editie], dl. 1.
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...