Rungehaus
 View of the front of the house museum |
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| place |
Wolgast , Kronwiekstraße 
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| Art |
Historic residential building
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| opening | July 23, 1997 |
| Number of visitors (annually) |
10,000 |
| operator |
City of Wolgast
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The Rungehaus has been a museum in the town of Wolgast in the east of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since July 23, 1997 . It was set up in the house where the painter Philipp Otto Runge was born and is dedicated to his life and work. The listed building is located in Wolgast's old town near the city harbor on Kronwiekstrasse.
exhibition
In the Runge house, which has largely been preserved in its original design and was extensively renovated in 1996/1997, original-size copies of Runge's pictures are shown, the originals of which are in the Hamburger Kunsthalle . The selection of works documents Runge's artistic career, who, alongside Caspar David Friedrich, is considered the most important representative of Northern German Romanticism , from Wolgast via Copenhagen and Dresden to Hamburg . A computer installation also gives an insight into Runge's theory of colors .
In 2010, next to the entrance to the building, a wave-shaped fairy tale wish bench was designed with mosaics , which is based on his most famous work, the fairy tale The Fisherman and syn Fru . A saying animates the visitors to get the flounder to speak: “I am the flounder that works miracles. With a coin in my throat - tell me your wish. ”In a green area in front of the house there are wooden figures of the fisherman (with a fisherman's hat and fishing net in his hand) on concrete pedestals and, at some distance from it, the fisherman's wife with a headscarf. The sculptures come from the sculptor Eckart Labs from Greifswald , the mosaics for the bank were made by Beate Riemann from Koserow .
Since July 23, 2017, Runge's 240th birthday, the building has been showing a completely redesigned permanent exhibition on two floors; the cost of this was 77,000 euros. "Everything that is authentic in the house in which Runge spent the first ten years of his life and whose room layout has been preserved for centuries has been carefully restored: the doors with the fittings, the crooked floorboards, the windows." The house receives around 10,000 visitors a year .
architecture
The Rungehaus is a five-axis plastered building with two storeys , which was built on a field stone base in the first decade of the 18th century . Four square pilasters at the corners and on both sides of the central axis as well as a cornice between the ground floor and the upper floor structure the facade. The arched entrance has a baroque panel door. In front of it there is a short flight of stairs with a wrought iron railing.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , p. 371.
