Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (1726 – 1801),

• Was a German painter and printmaker with Huguenot and Polish ancestry.
• He was born in the city of Gdańsk in Poland.
• When his father died, both Daniel (aged 16) and his younger brother Gottfried Chodowiecki went to live with their uncle in Berlin.
• In Germany Daniel received artistic training from the painter Haid in Augsburg.
• His brother also became a painter.
• He spent most of his life in Berlin.

• His works includes several thousand etchings, usually rather small, and many drawings and paintings.

• In 1797 Chodowiecki was appointed director of the Academy of Arts in Berlin.
• He died in Berlin on 7 February 1801. 

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