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Hailing from a wealthy Protestant family, Philipp Runge was the ninth child of Magdalena Dorothea Runge and Daniel Nicolas Runge, a merchant and the owner of a shipping company.
At quite early an age, the artist's mother trained him on the techniques of making 'Scissor-Cut Silhouettes,' an art; he kept polishing through his life.
Runge attended Wolgast Town School from 1789.
He was promising as an artist, under the guidance of his teacher, Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten.
After schooling, Runge started training as a merchant in Hamburg in 1795.
After 1797, Joachim Herterich and later, Gert Hardorff, worked with Runge, while guiding him on the finer details of drawing.
The artist continued his art education and joined the Copenhagen Academy.
There, he studied under Jens Juel, from 1799-1801.
In an attempt to evolve his art skills further, he went to Dresden, where he befriended Schlegels & Friedrich, and flirted with the 'Mystical' philosophy.
In 1803, he visited Weimar, where he established professional association with the German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
The artist married Pauline Bassenge on April 03, 1804, and settled in Hamburg.
Philipp Runge expressed his religious feelings through his work, transgressing the boundaries of 'Classicalism.
' Interested more in incorporating 'Realism, he employed the 'Symbolism' of color, quantities, and forms to exhibit the splendid accordance of universe.
Philipp is admired for his series of four paintings, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1805)," "The Times of the Day (1805-06)," "Tageszeiten (1808)," and "Die Hülsenbeckschen Kinder (1805-10).
" On track with 'Romanticism,' Runge believed in unifying with nature to reach nearest possible to God.
The artist was one of the star portraitists as well, with his works having sharp, deep, and firm contours.
Owing to the brewing perilous siege of Hamburg by Napoleon, Philipp Runge returned to Wolgast in 1805, and carried on with his printmaking.
He developed 'Color Theory' in collaboration with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
During the War against Napoleon both, Pomerania and Hamburg were occupied hindering Runge's return to Hamburg until 1807.
Meanwhile, the artist was blessed with a daughter, Maria Dorothea.
In 1807, on returning to Hamburg, he formed a partnership company with his brother, which he worked for through the rest of his life.
The same year, he developed the concept of 'Color Sphere.
' In 1808, he experimented with 'Disk Color Mixture.
' Around this time only, he also made illustrations for "Kinder-und Hausmärchen," a collection of fairy-tales by brothers, J.
and W.
Grimm.
Philipp's third child, a son, Gustav Ludwig Bernhard, was born in 1809.
In 1810, the publishing house, Perthes-Verlag, published Runge's paper, 'Die Farben-Kugel (The Color Sphere).
' In March of the same year, the artist suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 33, on December 02, 1810, in Hamburg.
His fourth child was born a day after his demise.
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