PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE (WOLGAST 1777-1810 HAMBURG)
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE (WOLGAST 1777-1810 HAMBURG)
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE (WOLGAST 1777-1810 HAMBURG)
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PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE (WOLGAST 1777-1810 HAMBURG)

Apple blossom with two leafs

Details
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE (WOLGAST 1777-1810 HAMBURG)
Apple blossom with two leafs
with inscription 'Ph.O. Runge.' (lower right)
graphite on paper
9 ¼ x 9 ¼ in. (23.5 x 23.5 cm.)
Provenance
The artist's heirs; then by descent to
private collection, Bensberg-Franknhorst.
Anonymous sale; Karl and Faber, Munich, 27 November 1980, lot 856.
Anonymous sale; Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 19-21 November 1981, lot 636.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1984, lot 597.
with Felix Jud & Co., Hamburg, 1988, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
J. Traeger, Philipp Otto Runge und sein Werk, Munich, 1975, no. 31, ill.

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Nathalie Ferneau
Nathalie Ferneau Head of Sale, Junior Specialist

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Descriptif du lot

Runge ranks alongside Caspar David Friedrich as one of the most influential German Romantic artists. Like Friedrich, 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.

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