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Lot Essay
Runge ranks alongside Caspar David Friedrich as one of the most influential German Romantic artists. Like Friderich, Runge found in nature religious revelation and in individual plants and trees the living spirit of the Divine.
This delicate study of an apple blossom is close to a group of small compositions depicting flowers in blossom that the artist made early on in his career (Traeger, op. cit., nos. 4-9 ill.). Stylistically the drawing appears to be more mature than those early works, yet it is difficult to date it precisely.
This delicate study of an apple blossom is close to a group of small compositions depicting flowers in blossom that the artist made early on in his career (Traeger, op. cit., nos. 4-9 ill.). Stylistically the drawing appears to be more mature than those early works, yet it is difficult to date it precisely.