Philipp Otto Runge (1777 - 1810)

Philipp Otto Runge

Philipp Otto Runge was a German painter of the early 19th century. He became known as a master of historical and portrait painting. Runge is considered one of the most prominent representatives of the Romantic style in European art.

Philipp Otto Runge became famous for his pioneering paintings. He painted portraits as well as landscapes and historical works. In addition to easel painting he was engaged in illustrating books, wrote poems, prose and fairy tales. In addition, the artist developed his own theory of three-dimensional color system in the field of art. Runge manuscripts on this subject were published after his death, and experts appreciated them only in the middle of the XIX century.

Many of Runge's masterpieces perished in 1931 in the catastrophic fire of the Glass Palace - an exhibition hall in Munich. Most of the master's surviving paintings are now in the Hamburg Museum of Art.