Shop 33 artworks by Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) — every piece is public domain and can be printed as canvas, rolled canvas, framed canvas or a framed print.
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 literature and philosophy of his time. He was a prolific letter writer and maintained correspondences and friendships with contemporaries such as Carl Ludwig Heinrich Berger, Caspar David Friedrich, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, Henrik Steffens, and Ludwig Tieck. His paintings are often filled with symbolism and allegories. For eight years he planned and refined his seminal project, Tageszeiten, four monumental paintings 50 square meters each, which in turn were only part of a larger collaborative Gesamtkunstwerk that was to include poetry, music, and architecture, but remained unrealized at the time of his death. With it he aspired to abandon the traditional iconography of Christianity in European art and find a new expression for spiritual values through symbolism in landscapes. One historian stated "In Runge's painting we are clearly dealing with the attempt to present contemporary philosophy in art." He wrote an influential volume on color theory in 1808, Sphere of Colors, that was published the same year he died.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
At a glance
Most of Philipp Otto Runge's work on the site falls under Flowers (10), Figurative (9), Prints (6).
By movement, it's catalogued as Neoclassicism (43).
Culture: German (43).
By orientation: 9 landscape, 33 portrait, 1 square.
Dated work in this group ranges from 1797 to 1810.
Prints of these artworks
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Sizes and framing
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- 33 public-domain artworks by Philipp Otto Runge are catalogued on Archive Lane, each available as a free preview, a digital download, or a made-to-order print.
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