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Jürgen Runge (Painter)

German painter

Name Runge, Jürgen

Abstract German painter

Date of birth 19. March 1929

PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin

DATE OF DEATH 3. June 1992

PLACE OF DEATH Cismar

Jürgen Runge (* 19. March 1929 in Szczecin; † 3. June 1992 in Cismar) was a German painter.

Tombstone of the painter Jürgen Runge at the cemetery in Cismar

The Runge family came from Pomerania to Kiel, where the parents opened an art shop in 1945.

Already in 1948 Jürgen Runge received a scholarship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein to attend the art academy in Plön and then studied with Daniel Frettelier in Paris (where he received the Art Prize of the City of Paris in 1956) and as a master student with Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. He then moved through Europe with Roma for some time and temporarily settled in Ibiza from 1970 to 1975. He became known through international exhibitions, which enabled him to live from painting and go on study trips. From the mid-1970s, he lived in Ostholstein (Schleswig-Holstein) - first in Neukirchen and from 1978 in Cismar, where he leased the "White House" of Cismar Monastery with his wife Doris Runge and set up his studio there.

Jürgen Runge's early pictures are realistic / naturalistic. Later, Jürgen Runge's painting style changes significantly due to the putty technique adopted by Oskar Kokoschka - whereby he further develops its mixture of elements of impressionism and expressionism into his own - he uses strong colors with powerful paint application that characterize a Mediterranean brightness. His pictures show lands and towns, nudes and still lifes, whereby the motifs are often taken from his Holstein homeland in the different seasons and are depicted by him in clear severity without heaviness.

His pictures are now in museums and private collections

Marriages

Jürgen Runge was with the poet Elisabeth von Ulmann (formerly Elisabeth Meyer-Runge) and (from 1967 to 1981) in third marriage to the writer Doris Runge (* 1943 in Carlow/Mecklenburg) married.

JÜRGEN RUNGE passed away 1992

Jürgen Runge did not paint isms but pictures. He didn't care about directions, but about his colors. He was not interested in an ideological art debate, but first of all in his craft, without which no art is possible. In a way, he was an old-fashioned artist who one might think would have moved through the country with light luggage in the era of his ancestors, the romantic Philipp Otto Runge, to learn from this and that contemporaries. In the baroque era, as a master of a large studio, he would be completely credible, sparing in his comments on the students' work, preferably silent and literally through the pre-picture. He remained a son of the century in it.

At first, he actually moved through the country with light luggage, learned from Daniel Fretelier in Paris, with Oskar Kokoschka, whose fusion of impressionist and expressionist elements was powerfully further shaped by Runge; courageous, spontaneously, with insatiably curious eyes. A funny Frenchman said of him: He doesn't care about style - he will probably have one for it. In contrast to the (half as wild) new expressionists, he paints disciplined, not sectarian, not barbaric, not fanatical. Rather full of world, full of grief, full of joy and tact. He doesn't think grace is unGerman.

Revolt against manner and coercion from the beginning. For four years he wandered with gypsies criss-cross Europe, recorded their language (the Romenis), adopted her attitude to life and their unwritten laws. He remained true to their rules. Nevertheless, he did not become a "gypsy round", but transformed their relationship to nature, to people, to life into his own visual language. It was reflected in his view of landscapes, trees, fields, streams, houses, people.

For many years he lived in Ibiza, looking for the southern light, but also the Mediterranean rigor on which the magnificent beauty of Setes gave him. Maries and Aigues Mortes. Finally, a kind of return home to the German north (the family was at home in Pomerania). In the shadow of Cismar Monastery, which Caspar David Friederich could have invented, he moved to a bright Biedermeier house with a wild garden where it smells like childhood, summer, bread (and cats).

There in Holstein, a few kilometers from the Baltic Sea, he always painted outside, - whether in scorching heat or clinking cold - without sketches, always direct, always spontaneously and relentlessly accurate in craftsmanship - painted scenes of the foaming Nordic spring, the summer silence, the delicate melancholi of autumn and the crystalline dignity of winter.

In his pictures, Runge freed the German north from its heaviness. He drove out of his dullness. He made him sing according to the melodies of his gypsies. He looked at the finer, the clearer lines that lead to the Mediterranean. The north bewitched, Enchanted him, he made him easy. That's great art.

Here was another unique find from the Bertram Roland Backstrom Collection.

Over the years Mr. Backstrom created and collected hundreds of art pieces of all media. He had a vast collection of ceramic artist Karen Karnes and her partner Ann Stannard. Bert purchased over fifty pieces of pottery from the couple. Add to that the list below of Ceramic Artists and you can see he had a keen eye.

We are just scratching the surface - Recent discoveries of prints, paintings and artifacts from Mr. Backstrom’s Estate keep turning up from the family warehouse. Many unseen works date back to before 1987 through 1996 when the last crate was stored away.

The Backstrom Estate includes paintings and prints from:

George Grosz

Norman Bluhm

Jules Guerin

Louise August

Morris Moshe Katz

Joaquín Espalter y Rull

M. Maleter

Lois Green - LG Cohen

Albrecht Durer

Jules Pascin

Richard Smith

Henri Matisse

Peter Max

Andy Warhol

Georges Braque

Samuel V. Chamberlain

Samuel Chatwood Burton

Juan García Ripollés

Ernest Trova

The Backstrom Estate includes ceramic pottery and sculpture from:

Karen Karnes

Ann Stannard

Mikhail Zakin

Hiroshi Nakayama

Judy Glasser-Nakayama

Byron Temple

Charles Walter Clewell

Bruce Eppelsheimer

Bill Stewart

Jeffery Oestreich

Anne Shattuck-Bailey

Robert Winokur

Ron Garfinkle

Marie Moore Summers

Malcolm Wright

Bertram Backstrom

and Natalie Surving

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