Ferdinand Runk

October 14, 1764 (age 70)

Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Soon after completion of the Academy, he was very successful, in addition to oil paintings mainly with gouache, his preferred technique. From 1795 he was employed by John of Austria, later employed by Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg and Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein. Foreign them, he traveled through the Tyrol, the Netherlands, Germany and France, where he painted many landscape views. Many of his drawings and watercolors were reproduced in print series. He lived and worked mainly in Bohemia, mainly in Český Krumlov, but also in Styria, in the service of Joseph II of Schwarzenberg (1769-1833). On the death of Pauline in 1810 was followed by a nearly year-long hiatus. In 1811 Runk married Rosalie Zadlitzová, with whom he had two daughters. He later lived primarily in Austria. In his last years he turned his attention increasingly to the restoration of old paintings from the collection of Schwarzenberg. When Runk died in 1834 he was buried at Schloss Neuwaldegg. The asteroid 4662 Runk was named by Czechoslovakian astronomer Jana Tichá after Ferdinand Runk, as Runk had in 1830 painted a panoramic watercolor of the view from Kleť (1038 meters), the location of the Kleť Observatory.

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In 1778 Runk graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and studied with among others Hubert Maurer, Friedrich August and Johann Christian Brand.

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Soon after completion of the Academy, he was very successful, in addition to oil paintings mainly with gouache, his preferred technique. From 1795 he was employed by John of Austria, later employed by Karl Philipp, Prince of Schwarzenberg and Johann I Joseph, Prince of Liechtenstein. Foreign them, he traveled through the Tyrol, the Netherlands, Germany and France, where he painted many landscape views.

Many of his drawings and watercolors were reproduced in print series.

He lived and worked mainly in Bohemia, mainly in Český Krumlov, but also in Styria, in the service of Joseph II of Schwarzenberg (1769-1833). On the death of Pauline in 1810 was followed by a nearly year-long hiatus.

In 1811 Runk married Rosalie Zadlitzová, with whom he had two daughters. He later lived primarily in Austria.

In his last years he turned his attention increasingly to the restoration of old paintings from the collection of Schwarzenberg.

When Runk died in 1834 he was buried at Schloss Neuwaldegg. The asteroid 4662 Runk was named by Czechoslovakian astronomer Jana Tichá after Ferdinand Runk, as Runk had in 1830 painted a panoramic watercolor of the view from Kleť (1038 meters), the location of the Kleť Observatory.

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