Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe

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Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniss und Menschenliebe

Leipzig und Winterthur : Bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich, und Heinrich Steiner und Compagnie, 1775-1778

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Title in each vol. has etched vignette, in v. 1 by Daniel Chodowiecki, in v. 2 by Johann Rudolf Schellenberg, in v. 4 by Johann Heinrich Lips after Chodowiecki. Illustrations include outline and silhouette ports. by these and other artists.

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Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801

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Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker with Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. He was born in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, and in a letter “in typical Berlin humor”[citation needed] wrote, “that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.” He kept close to the Huguenot scene...