Goettinger Taschen Calender vom Jahr ...

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Goettinger Taschen Calender vom Jahr ...

Göttingen : Dieterich, 1776-

llustrations contributed by Daniel Chodowiecki, Ernst Riepenhausen, and others. Vols. 1784-1796 include Lichtenberg's commentaries on Hogarth, with engravings after Hogarth by Riepenhausen. Description based on: 1788; title from title page. Latest issue consulted: 1798.

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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...