Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810)

• Was a German artist, draftsman, and painter.
• Runge was born in 1777 in Wolgast.
• As a youth he attended a school headed by Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten.
• He started taking drawing lessons in Hamburg in 1797 with Heinrich Joachim Herterich.
• Runge studied painting for three years at the Copenhagen Academy.
• Runge then attended the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts from 1801 to 1804 studying with Anton Graff. 
• He maintained correspondences and friendships with  Caspar David Friedrich, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• Runge met Pauline Bassenge in Dresden in 1801 when she was 16 years old.
• They were married in Dresden on April 3, 1804, and soon moved back to Hamburg.
• They had four children, the youngest born after Runge's death.
• Runge died of consumption (tuberculosis) in 1810, at the age 33.
• Much of his surviving work was donated to the Hamburger Kunsthalle by his widow Pauline Runge née Bassenge in
• The displayed painting is a crop from:  Philipp Otto Runge, Self-portrait with Brown Collar, circa 1802.
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