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Philipp Otto Runge

1777 - 1810

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Philipp Otto Runge (German: [ˈʁʊŋə]; 1777–1810) 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.: 51 p. : 443 pp.  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.: 38 pp. : 343 pp.  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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Philipp Otto Runge has received more than 240,236 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Philipp Otto Runge is the 349th most popular painter (down from 310th in 2019), the 968th most popular biography from Germany (down from 847th in 2019) and the 28th most popular German Painter.

Philipp Otto Runge is most famous for his essay, "The Theory of Colors," which was published in 1810. The essay was one of the first to propose that color is not an objective property of objects, but rather a subjective perception of the human eye.

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Among painters, Philipp Otto Runge ranks 349 out of 2,023. Before him are John Singer Sargent, Richard Serra, Federico Zuccari, Dosso Dossi, Polygnotus, and William Holman Hunt. After him are Domenico Veneziano, Joseph Karl Stieler, Albert Anker, Taddeo Gaddi, Nicolai Abildgaard, and Valentin Serov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1777, Philipp Otto Runge ranks 11. Before him are Heinrich von Kleist, Henry Clay, Elisa Bonaparte, Francis I of the Two Sicilies, Juliette Récamier, and Nathan Mayer Rothschild. After him are Louis Jacques Thénard, Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse, Archduchess Maria Clementina of Austria, Bernard Courtois, Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, and Adélaïde d'Orléans. Among people deceased in 1810, Philipp Otto Runge ranks 8. Before him are Axel von Fersen the Younger, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Nachman of Breslov, Marie Joséphine of Savoy, Jean-Georges Noverre, and Johann Wilhelm Ritter. After him are Andreas Hofer, Chevalier d'Éon, Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber, Andrianampoinimerina, Mir Taqi Mir, and Yekaterina Vorontsova-Dashkova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Philipp Otto Runge ranks 968 out of 7,253. Before him are Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887), Tannhäuser (1205), Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse (1868), Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795), Albert III, Duke of Saxony (1443), and Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (1842). After him are Duchess Maria Antonia of Bavaria (1724), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Wilhelm Kempff (1895), Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), and Alfred Weber (1868).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Philipp Otto Runge ranks 28. Before him are Gabriele Münter (1877), Max Beckmann (1884), Franz Stuck (1863), Carl Spitzweg (1808), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876), and Hendrik Goltzius (1558). After him are Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), Stefan Lochner (1410), Johann Friedrich Overbeck (1789), Oskar Schlemmer (1888), Max Klinger (1857), and Lucian Freud (1922).

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