Philipp Runge - The German Romantic painters of the eighteenth century

Philipp Otto Runge, Philipp Runge, the famous "Romantic" landscape painter, theorist and draftsman, was on 23 Born in July 1777 in Wolgast (Vorpommern), Germany. Hailing from a wealthy Protestant family Philipp Runge was the ninth child of Magdalena Dorothea Runge and Nicolas Daniel Runge, a businessman and the owner of a shipping company. In very early age, formed the artist's mother to make him the technology, "Scissor-Cut Silhouettes", an art, he kept polishing itsLife.

Runge attended school in the town of Wolgast, 1789. He showed promise as an artist, under the guidance of his teacher, Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten. After schooling Runge education began as a merchant in Hamburg in 1795. By 1797, Joachim Herterich and later worked with Gert Hardorff Runge and directs him to the finer details of the drawing. The artist, he continued his artistic training and joined the Copenhagen Academy of Art. There he studied with Jens Juel, from 1799-1801. In an attempt tofurther develop skills of his art, he went to Dresden, where he befriended and Friedrich Schlegel, and flirted with the "Mystical Philosophy '. In 1803 he visited Weimar, where he worked with the Professional Association of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The artist married Pauline Bassenge on April 03, 1804, and settled in Hamburg.

Philipp Runge expressed his religious sentiments through his work, transgressing the boundaries of "classical." Interested moreInvolvement "realism, he employs the" symbolism "of colors, sizes, shapes and the beautiful harmony of the universe to show. Philip is admired for his series of four paintings," Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1805), "The Times of The Day (1805-06), Daily Times (1808), "and" The Hülsenbeck Children (1805 - 10). "On Course with 'romance, he believed" Runge in agreement with nature to achieve as close to God . The artist was a portrait artist of the stars as well, with his workswith sharp, deep and solid contours.

Because of the brewing dangerous siege of Hamburg by Napoleon returned Runge Philipp Wolgast, 1805, and led with his printmaking. He developed "Color Theory" in collaboration with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. During the war against Napoleon two, Pomerania and Hamburg were employed impede Runge back to Hamburg until 1807. Meanwhile, the artist with a daughter, Maria Dorothea was blessed.

In 1807, after returning to Hamburg, heSociety formed a partnership with his brother, which he for the rest of his life. In the same year he developed the concept of "color sphere." In 1808 he experimented with 'disc mixing. At this time only, he made illustrations for the "Children's and Household Tales", a collection of fairy tales by the brothers J. and W. Grimm. Philip's third child, a son, Gustav Ludwig Bernhard, was born in 1809th In 1810, the publisher, Perthes-Verlag published paper Runge "Paint Ball (The Color Sphere). "In March of that year, the artist suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 33 years, on December 02, 1810 in Hamburg. His fourth child was born one day after his death.