Philipp Otto Runge

Philipp Otto Runge was a German Romantic painter, born at Wolgast, who also wrote on colour theory and wrote some verse. He died in Hamburg at the age of thirty-three.

James Clarence Mangan (1803–1849) translated this poet in his German Anthology (1845); the poems here are his English versions, as reprinted in Poems, ed. John Mitchel (New York, 1859).