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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.

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.

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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