Philip Otto Runge

Philip Otto Runge painted dreamy forest scenes where light filters through trees and a quiet river glides through the undergrowth. His solitary surviving work in our collection, Peisaj de pădure cu rriu, shows mossy banks and slender birches standing in still water, a slice of Prussian woods near Hamburg in the early 1800s. The scene feels like a pause before sunset—branches barely stir, the sky barely bright. Tap Peisaj de pădure cu rriu to step into that hush.