Twee scènes uit Sebaldus Nothanker
1736 - 1801
Medium
etching
Dimensions
205; 167
Rights
Public Domain
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...