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Philipp Otto Runge
Philipp Otto Runge was a German artist, draftsman, painter, and color theorist. Runge and Caspar David Friedrich are often regarded as the leading painters of the German Romantic movement. He is frequently compared with William Blake by art historians, although Runge's short ten-year career is not easy to equate to Blake's career. By all accounts he had a brilliant mind and was well versed in the…
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culture · German painter (1777–1810) · painter · poet · printmaker · draftsperson · writer · also Philipp Otto Runge, Ph. Otto Runge, Otto Philipp Runge, Otto Runge, Runge, Ph. O. Runge
Born 23 July 1777 · Died 2 December 1810 · Q166585
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2018· 1 entry
Cicero: Philipp Otto Runge
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2012· 1 entry
mainpost: Gerda Böning, Ururnichte des Künstlers Philipp Otto Runge, wird 102
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2011· 1 entry
Pressemitteilungen: Philipp Otto Runge: kreativ und genial - Seltenes Schlüsselwerk der Romantik in Ketterer-Auktion
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2010· 1 entry
haz: Philipp Otto Runge in der Kunsthalle
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2004· 1 entry
Die Tageszeitung: Stiftung Philipp Otto Runge
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2002· 1 entry
welt.de: Familientreffen - Philipp Otto Runge in der Kunsthalle
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1900· 1 entry
By Albert Henry Munsell, soon replaced with an irregular form of the solid
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1810· 2 entries
Died 1810-12-02.
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At the age 33, his life's work spanning little more than ten years
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1809· 1 entry
Runge completed his work on the manuscript of Farben-Kugel (Color sphere), published in 1810 in Hamburg
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1808· 3 entries
Intensified his work on color, including making disk color mixture experiments
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Sphere of Colors, that was published the same year he died
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A manuscript describing the color sphere, published in Hamburg early in 1810
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1807· 2 entries
And his brother Daniel formed a new company in which he remained active until the end of his life
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As indicated in his letter to Goethe of November 21 of that year, by expanding the hue circle into a sphere, with white and black forming the two opposing poles
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1805· 2 entries
To his parental home in Wolgast where they remained until 1807
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Runge's correspondence with Goethe on the subject of his artistic work and color became more intensive
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1804· 1 entry
Married and moved with his wife to Hamburg
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1803· 2 entries
Runge had large-format engravings made of the drawings of the Times of the Day series that became commercially successful and a set of which he presented to Goethe
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On a visit to Weimar, Runge unexpectedly met Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the two formed a friendship based on their common interests in color and art
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1801· 1 entry
Moved to Dresden to continue his studies, where he met Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Tieck, and his future wife Pauline Bassenge
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1777· 1 entry
Born 1777-07-23.
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