Philipp Otto Runge

Category
ARTS - PHOTOGRAPHY - ARCHITECTURE

Language
GERMAN

Philipp Otto Runge , 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.[7]: 71 p.  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.[1]: 98, 135 pp.  One historian stated "In Runge's painting we are clearly dealing with the attempt to present contemporary philosophy in art."[2]: 450 pp.  He wrote an influential volume on color theory in 1808, Sphere of Colors, that was published the same year he died.[8]

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