We invite you to bid on a unique drawing created by Daniel Chodowiecki during his stay in Gdansk in 1779 .The work was a gift from the artist to a city institution.
Composition made on handmade paper, using own technique with colored inks, signed, contains traces of stamps, inscriptions of the artist.
Dimensions of the work 22.5 cmx 17, 5 cm, at the top narrower by about 1.4 cm, this is the original size of the work.
Daniel Chodowiecki, actually Daniel Nikolaus ( Mikolaj) Chodowiecki (born October 16, 1726 in Danzig, died February 7, 1801 in Berlin) - a German painter, draughtsman and engraver of Polish origin. His oeuvre consists of about 4,000 drawings made in pencil, sanguine and ink, 2075 engravings engraved on 978 plates and about 30 paintings. He was the first to depict petit bourgeois and family life in northern Germany. The spreading spirit of the Enlightenment is reflected in his works. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) called him a "painter of souls" because of his artistic, cultural and historical and literary prints, which are a document of the era.
Anton Graff - Portrait of Daniel Chodowiecki (1800). Source:Wikimedia Commons |