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4 unusual facts about Philipp Otto Runge


Oskar Rosenfeld

Finished his studies in 1908 and promoted in Vienna about Philipp Otto Runge in the Romantics.

Philipp Otto Runge

In addition to a description of the color sphere, it contains an illustrated essay on rules of color harmony and one on color in nature written by Runge's friend Henrik Steffens.

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Runge was born as the 9th of 11 children in Wolgast, Western Pomerania, then under Swedish rule, in a family of shipbuilders with ties to the Prussian nobility of Sypniewski / von Runge family.

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A color mixture solid of a double-triangular pyramid had been proposed by Tobias Mayer in 1758, a fact known to Runge.



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