Philipp Otto Runge
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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 frequ
Self-portrait, ca. 1802, Hamburger Kunsthalle
A Stalk of Lilies with Six Blooms
Birth of the Human Soul circa 1806, 35.5 x 32.7cm, private collection
Runge's Farbenkugel (color sphere)
Novalis
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Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an infl
Philipp Otto Runge
…movement. The poet and writer Ludwig Tieck was particularly influential in introducing Runge to new literature and the mystical ideas of Jakob Böhme and Novalis. Runge met Pauline Bassenge in Dresden in 1801 when she was 16 years old. They were married in Dresden on April 3, 1804, and soon moved back to Hamburg…
Portrait, c. 1799
Oberwiederstedt castle
Sophie von Kühn
Novalis house plaque, Freiberg