Philipp Otto Runge

Place: Wolgast

Born: 1777

Death: 1810

Biography:

Philipp Otto Runge (German: [ˈʁʊŋə] 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 is considered among the best German Romantic painters. Runge was born as the ninth of eleven children in Wolgast, Western Pomerania, then under Swedish rule, in a family of...