Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki was a German painter and printmaker of 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 Ber
Portrait of Daniel Chodowiecki, painted posthumously by Adolph von Menzel in 1859
Minuet in the park, 1760s (National Museum in Warsaw)
Cartoon etching by Chodowiecki, 1781, on the Partition of Poland
Chodowiecki depicted on a 1 million papiermark note (1923)
The Prussian Academy of Arts was a state arts academy first established in 1694 by prince-elector Frederick III of Brandenburg in Berlin, in personal union Duke Frederick I of Prussia, and later king
Daniel Chodowiecki
…and printmaker of 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, he kept close to the Huguenot scene, due to his ancestry…
Arnim Palace [de], the Prussian Academy of Arts building on Pariser Platz in Berlin, c. 1903
Director Max Liebermann (center) opening a 1922 "Black & White" Exhibition at the Academy