Vierentwintig koppen van mannen

About this artwork

Prent ook gebruikt in: Lavater, Johann Kaspar. Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniß und Menschenliebe. Leipzig en Winterthur: erven Weidmann en Reich en Heinrich Steiner en Compagnie, 1775-1778.

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...