daughter of an Amsterdam silk-trader, Johanna Marie Barez in Berlin
6 daughters and 3 sons, among them Louis Guilleaume Chodowiecki
1726 in Gdańsk, Poland
1801
Berlin
trader for cereals, Gottfried Chodowiecki & his wife, Marie Henriette, born Ayrer
painter Gottfried Chodowiecki (brother) ; Christian C. (1655-?), Danzig (grandfather) ; porcellaine trader Antoine Ayrer, Berlin (uncle)
initially as miniature&emaille-painter; taught by Johann Jacob Haid (1704-1767), Christian Bernhard Rode (1725-1797) &Johann Heinrich Meil (1729-1803)
Germany
G. L. Leclerc Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) ; Johann Siegmund Stoy (1745-1808) ; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752-1840): Beyträge zur Naturgeschichte (1781) & Über den Bildungstrieb (1787-9) ; Lavater: Physiognomische Fragmente; J.B. Basedow: Elementarwerk für die Jugend und ihre Freunde (1774); reprint as: J. B. Basedows Elementarwerk mit den Kupfertafeln Chodowieckis et al., Kritische Bearbeitung in drei Bänden, herausgegeben von Theodor Fritzsch. Dritter Band, Leipig: Ernst Wiegand, Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1909;
Prussian Academy of Art, Berlin (member since 1764, secr. 1783, rector 1786-89, vice-pres.1789-97, pres.1797-1801) ;
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) ;
zoological (esp. animal), natural history, physical, ethnographic, anatomical, and physiological drawing, painting, and etching
ADB 4 1876: 132-5 ; Ernst Hinrichs & Klaus Zernack: D. C. Kupferstecher 1997 ; Ludwig D. Jacoby: Chodowieckis Werke Verzeichnis (1758-1800) ; Nissen: Zoolog. Buchillustration 1969/78 ; Pinault et al. 1984: 64 ; Theye 1989: 60; Döring 2009: 72-73; Emporium 2002: 290
Born in Poland, but since 1743 active in Berlin, then Prussia, nowadays Germany. Mostly famous for artsy prints, portraits & genre motifs; active mostly in Berlin & Göttingen.
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