Artists

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  The Great Morning $AU 271.02 ~ 1,538.12
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  The Small Morning $AU 277.12 ~ 1,105.93

Philipp Otto Runge (1777 Wolgast-1810 Hamburg) received his first training in drawing from his elder brother Daniel, who lived near Hamburg, in 1794. From 1799 to 1801 Runge studied at the Academy of Art in Copenhagen; from 1801 on he pursued his studies on his own in Dresden. In 1803 he again settled in Hamburg. He died as a Youngman, just 33 years old. In spite of this, together with Casper David Friedrich, Runge is considered one of the most important representatives of northern German Romanticism. He mainly painted portraits of his friends and relatives, but his goal was to bring new expressive power to landscape painting. Works by the artist include Self-Portrait, 1802, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; The Artist's Parents, 1806, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; and Loise Perthes at the Age of Three Years, 1805, Schlossmuseum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Weimar.