German Romantic Painter, 1777-1810 ..German painter, draughtsman and theorist. He stands alongside Caspar David Friedrich as a leading figure in German Romantic painting even though his early death restricted his oeuvre to relatively few stages of development. The enduring prominence of philosophical and theoretical concerns suggests that further work would have contributed to the history of ideas as well as to that of art. Runge's greatest influence was on later, largely 20th-century artists and thinkers rather than on his immediate contemporaries. While 19th-century developments certainly bore out Runge's claim for a new, symbolic role for landscape,
Colour Spheres
1809 Copper engraving with watercolour, 225 x 189 mm Kunsthalle, Hamburg Runge was in close contact with Goethe over questions of colour theory. In his correspondence Newton's name crops up , the person present in the spirit of the whole age, an age as Enlightened as it was searching. In his painting Runge sought to derive the visible "images" or "symbols" for the "all-unifying" principle not only from form but from colour too. Author: RUNGE, Philipp Otto Title: Colour Spheres Form: graphics , 1801-1850 , German , other