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Philipp Otto Runge

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Romantic. Radical. Modern

Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) is considered one of the pioneers of Romanticism in Germany as well as a key artistic innovator around 1800. During a period of profound political, social and intellectual transformation, he envisioned a poetic cosmos interweaving humanity, nature, time and colour. To mark the 250th anniversary of his birth, the Hamburger Kunsthalle is mounting an extensive retrospective that showcases the artist’s oeuvre in all its media diversity and conceptual depth. In order to situate Runge within the artistic, literary and philosophical context of his time, his works will engage here in a productive dialogue with those of his contemporaries as well as with relevant examples of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. These varying constellations serve to demonstrate how Runge was at once representative of his own era and at the same time a visionary who paved the way for modernism and whose influence can still be felt today. The exhibition spotlights Runge as an important artist of his time: romantic, radical and surprisingly modern.

 

Curators of the exhibtion

  • Dr. Markus Bertsch, Dr. Andreas Stolzenburg

Assistant curator

  • Jan Steinke

Supported by

Logo_Philipp Otto Runge Stiftung
Logo_Freunde der Kunsthalle