English summary: Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1818) is one of the most important painters of German Romanticism. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of his death, this Proceedings presents the current state of research through a number of contributions and many images. The works of Philipp Otto Runge were of central importance to the development of German Romanticism. Runge served as a role model to many as he sought for continuous renewal in his work. His theory of color was not only of relevance for the artists at the Bauhaus, but was reflected upon again and again well into the 20th Century. With a large and monographic exhibition, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, honor Runge's influence.This conference volume gathers the lectures of the Runge-symposium in October 2009 at the Hamburger Kunsthalle. A number of drawings that were thought to be lost or were previously unknown are included. German text. German description: Philipp Otto Runge (1777-1818) ist einer der bedeutendsten Maler der deutsche Romantik. Anlasslich seines 200. Todestages erscheint dieser Tagungsband der in zahlreichen Beitragen und anhand vieler Abbildungen die aktuelle Forschungslage wiedergibt. Das Werk von Philipp Otto Runge war fuer die Entwicklung der deutschen Romantik von zentraler Bedeutung. Indem Runge mit seinen Arbeiten eine Erneuerung der Kunst anstrebte, fungierte er fuer viele als Identifikationsfigur. Seine Farbenlehre war nicht nur fuer die Kuenstler am Bauhaus von Relevanz, sondern wurde bis weit ins 20. Jahrhundert hinein immer wieder mitreflektiert. Mit einer groaen, monographische Ausstellung wuerdigen und veranschaulichen die Hamburger Kunsthalle und die Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Muenchen den Einfluss von Runges Schaffen. Begleitend erscheint im Hirmer Verlag neben dem Ausstellungs-Katalog auch dieser Tagungsband, der die Vortrage des Runge-Symposiums vom Oktober 2009 in der Hamburger Kunsthalle versammelt. Dabei werden auch einige Zeichnungen, die bisher als verschollen galten bzw. unbekannt waren, publiziert.

English Description: The three artists to whom the exhibition is devoted, Ferdinand Hodler, Aleksandr Deyneka and Neo Rauch, stand in the twentieth century for the story of the utopia of the 'New Man', from its conception to its failure or continued life as the case may be. They exemplify with their artistic uvre the three stages through which the concept has passed. The early years of the twentieth century were marked by the life-reform movement, which fed on the one hand from the ideas of Romanticism, and on the other reactivated secularized Christian motifs in the nativity of the 'New Man'. The Swiss artist Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) was one of the leading artistic exponents of this movement. In an artificially created harmony with nature, his monumental figures set the surface of the picture in rhythmic motion with silhouette-like expressive gestures. One of Hodler's hitherto most important successors was the Russian painter Aleksandr Deyneka (1899-1969). In his motifs, but also in the body language and modelling of his characters, he took his bearings from the eurhythmic movements of the Swiss artist's figures, but placed them in prospering industrial landscapes. Finally, the painter Neo Rauch (b. 1960), who grew up and received his artistic training in communist East Germany, takes up once more the type of the 'New Man' on which Hodler and Deyneka had put their stamp. However, his figures exaggerate the aspect of inhibited action, recognizable already in his predecessors, and this aspect emerges, in the end, in aimless messing around in absurd configurations. Here the utopia of the 'New Man' is turned on its head to become a rejection of the belief in progress and of all ideology. German description: Die drei Kuenstler der Ausstellung, Ferdinand Hodler, Aleksandr Dejneka und Neo Rauch, stehen im 20. Jahrhundert fuer die Geschichte der Utopie des -Neuen Menschen- von seinem Entwurf bis zu seinem Scheitern bzw. Nachleben. Sie verkorpern mit ihrem kuenstlerischen Werk exemplarisch die drei Etappen, in denen sich dieser Prozess vollzieht