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Title: Art and artists of our time
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: New York, S. Hess
Contributing Library: Brandeis University Libraries
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THE PEDANTS MARRIAGE-PROPOSAL.BY CHODOWIECKI. The fainting mother, the weex^ing and lamenting wife and daughter-- all this is so trulyGerman, so Berlinish, and yet so true to universal human nature, and withal so moving, thatwe may well call the composition the first genre picture that was produced in Germany. Ithad at the time a far-reaching influence, and imitators by the score. The success of this plate was so great that it decided the fortunes of Chodowiecki, whofrom that time was overrun with orders from the booksellers, and found he had no longerleisure to paint his laborious miniatures. In 1764 he was made an associate of the BerlinAcademy, and in 1769 he was appointed engraver and etcher to the same society. In 1770 he
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ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 253 produced, for himself, a series of twelve designs to Lessings Minna Von Barnliehn, andwith these small oval pictures, set, like many of the ndniatures and silhouette likenesses ofthe time, in a simply decorated panel, a new era in book illustration was introduced intoGei-many. Here, again, France was (as she has for all the world so often) the inspirer anddirector of this new departure. Of his contemporaries who have gained the greatest distinc-tion in this same field, Moreau the younger, and Eisen, in France, and Stothard, in England,Moreau was fifteen years his junior, and Eisen his senior by six years, while Stothard wastwenty-nine years younger. Stothard, like Chodowiecki, owed much of his inspiration toFrance, but he is far inferior to his Prussian contemporary in the intellectual value of hiswork as well as in the variety and force of his design. The facility, energy, and fruitfulnessof Chodowiecki are wonderful. Engelmanns Catalogue gives us the

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