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Philipp Otto Runge
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mk09)
Painting ID:: 21402
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Philipp Otto Runge
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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, |
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Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mk09) |
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c 1805/06
Oil on canvas,98 x 132 cm
Hamburg,Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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Related Paintings::.
| cavalry making a sortie from a fort on a hill | Portrait of the Shishmariov Sisters | Seaport at Sunrise (mk08) | |
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