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Philipp Otto Runge
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Runge, Philipp Otto 

Born July 23, 1777, in Wolgast, Mecklenburg; died Dec. 2, 1810, in Hamburg. German painter, graphic artist, and art theorist.

Runge attended the Copenhagen Academy of Arts from 1799 to 1801 and the Dresden Academy of Arts from 1801 to 1803. He was one of the founders of romanticism in German painting. In 1802–03, Runge worked on the allegorical painting The Times of Day, of which only the first finished version of The Morning (1808, Kunsthalle, Hamburg) has been preserved. The painting was intended to embody the mystical spirituality of nature as expressed in the Christian pantheism of J. Boehme. The most significant of Runge’s works, The Times of Day was important in the artist’s research in optics (Color spectra…, 1810). Runge’s portraits were distinguished by fidelity to nature and by the portrayal of profound inner feeling concealed beneath a contemplative exterior (We Three, 1805, not preserved; The Artist’s Parents, 1806, Kunsthalle, Hamburg).

WORKS

Hinterlassene Schriften, vols. 1–2. Hamburg, 1840–41.

REFERENCES

Berefelt, G. P. O. Runge. Uppsala, 1961.
Bisanz, R. M. German Romanticism and Philipp Otto Runge. De Kalb, 111.1970.


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