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Philipp Otto Runge
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Philipp Otto Runge (23 July 1777 – 2 December 1810) was a Romantic German painter and draughtsman.
Although he made a late start to his career and died young, he ranks second only to Caspar David Friedrich among German Romantic painters.
Life and work
Runge was born as the 9th of 11 children of a family of shipbuilders in Wolgast, in Western Pomerania, then under Swedish rule.
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As a sickly child he often missed school and at an early age learned the art of scissor-cut silhouettes from his mother, practised by him throughout his life. In 1795 he began a commercial apprenticeship at his older brother Daniel's firm in Hamburg.
In 1799 Daniel supported Runge financially to begin study of painting under Jens Juel at the Copenhagen Academy. In 1801 he moved to Dresden to continue his studies, where he met Caspar David Friedrich, Ludwig Tieck, and h
