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Philipp Otto Runge

Lilac

1800–1805
Silhouette cut from off-white laid paper mounted to modern blue laid paper

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Plants and landscape were one of Philipp Otto Runge’s favorite subjects and he once wrote “Is there not then in this new art—call it landscape if you like—a highest point to be achieved?”

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