CAS AH 287 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Solid, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Caspar David Friedrich
8 Oct 2016
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Attempted to expresse the essence of the christianity by means of landscape. Proclaimed that slat mercury and sulphur reflect the trinity. The h lsenbeck children, oil on canvas 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. As a sickly child he often missed school and at an early age learned the art of scissor-cut silhouettes from his mother, practised by him throughout his life. In 1795 he began a commercial apprenticeship at his older brother daniel"s firm in hamburg. In 1799 daniel supported runge financially to begin study of painting under jens juel at the. In 1801 he moved to dresden to continue his studies, where he met. Caspar david friedrich, ludwig tieck, and his future wife pauline bassenge. He also began extensive study of the writings of the 17th century mystic jakob boehme.
