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Philipp Otto Runge or Philipp Runge, the famous 'Romantic' landscape painter, theorist, and drafter, was born on July 23, 1777, in Wolgast (West Pomerania), Germany. Hailing from a wealthy Protestant family, Philipp Runge was the ninth child of Magdalena Dorothea Runge and Daniel Nicolas Runge, a merchant and the owner of a shipping company. At quite early an age, the artist's mother trained him on the techniques of making 'Scissor-Cut Silhouettes,' an art; he kept polishing through his life.

Philipp Runge - The German Romantic Painter of the Eighteenth Century
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Philipp Otto Runge or Philipp Runge, the famous 'Romantic' landscape painter, theorist, and drafter, was born on July 23, 1777, in Wolgast (West Pomerania), Germany. Hailing from a wealthy Protestant family, Philipp Runge was the ninth child of Magdalena Dorothea Runge and Daniel Nicolas Runge, a merchant and the owner of a shipping company. At quite early an age, the artist's mother trained him on the techniques of making 'Scissor-Cut Silhouettes,' an art; he kept polishing through his life.

Runge attended Wolgast Town School from 1789. He was promising as an artist, under the guidance of his teacher, Gotthard Ludwig Kosegarten. After schooling, Runge started training as a merchant in Hamburg in 1795. After 1797, Joachim Herterich and later, Gert Hardorff, worked with Runge, while guiding him on the finer details of drawing. The artist continued his art education and joined the Copenhagen Academy. There, he studied under Jens Juel, from 1799-1801. In an attempt to evolve his art skills further, he went to Dresden, where he befriended Schlegels & Friedrich, and flirted with the 'Mystical' philosophy. In 1803, he visited Weimar, where he established professional association with the German writer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The artist married Pauline Bassenge on April 03, 1804, and settled in Hamburg.

Philipp Runge expressed his religious feelings through his work, transgressing the boundaries of 'Classicalism.' Interested more in incorporating 'Realism, he employed the 'Symbolism' of color, quantities, and forms to exhibit the splendid accordance of universe. Philipp is admired for his series of four paintings, "Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1805)," "The Times of the Day (1805-06)," "Tageszeiten (1808)," and "Die Hülsenbeckschen Kinder (1805-10)." On track with 'Romanticism,' Runge believed in unifying with nature to reach nearest possible to God. The artist was one of the star portraitists as well, with his works having sharp, deep, and firm contours.

Owing to the brewing perilous siege of Hamburg by Napoleon, Philipp Runge returned to Wolgast in 1805, and carried on with his printmaking. He developed 'Color Theory' in collaboration with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. During the War against Napoleon both, Pomerania and Hamburg were occupied hindering Runge's return to Hamburg until 1807. Meanwhile, the artist was blessed with a daughter, Maria Dorothea.

In 1807, on returning to Hamburg, he formed a partnership company with his brother, which he worked for through the rest of his life. The same year, he developed the concept of 'Color Sphere.' In 1808, he experimented with 'Disk Color Mixture.' Around this time only, he also made illustrations for "Kinder-und Hausmärchen," a collection of fairy-tales by brothers, J. and W. Grimm. Philipp's third child, a son, Gustav Ludwig Bernhard, was born in 1809. In 1810, the publishing house, Perthes-Verlag, published Runge's paper, 'Die Farben-Kugel (The Color Sphere).' In March of the same year, the artist suffered from tuberculosis and died at the age of 33, on December 02, 1810, in Hamburg. His fourth child was born a day after his demise.

Annette Labedzki received her BFA at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She has more than 25 years experience. She is the founder and developer of an online art gallery featuring original art from all over the world. It is a great site for art collectors to buy original art. Is is also a venue for artists to display and sell their art . Artists can join for free and their image upload is unlimited. Please visit the website at http://www.labedzki-art.com

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Boost your business with a global customer base! Your quality may be better, your price may be lower. However if your customer is unable to understand the service you provide then they will move on to the next competitor.

German Parts, American Companies and Spanish Customers
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Ring, ring, ring...Hello, how may I help you? Or maybe I should have said, ¿Hola, en que te puedo ayudar? American business owners have to start realizing that our Great American Melting Pot is growing each year and more and more minorities are an untapped sales resource due to the language barrier. If you can't communicate with someone, how can you explain to them why or how your product will be beneficial?

Each and every year there are more and more Spanish speaking customers looking for guidance when it comes to the right products, the right price, and the right customer service that is necessary in any sales transaction. Typically you may lose a large Spanish speaking customer base just for the mere fact that your competitor can communicate and answer the most simple common question. Your quality may be better, your price may be lower... however if your customer is unable to understand the service you provide then they will move on to the competition quicker than you can say Adios!

As a former owner of a mortgage company I was lucky enough to have a staff filled with bi-lingual salesmen. What I started to notice was the Spanish customers who were calling in all had interest rates on their property much higher than what the going rates had been for the last 5 years. Nowadays getting a mortgage is not an easy task and requires several steps and lots of documentation in order to get your loan closed. We found that most Spanish customers were holding on to old high rate mortgages for the mere fact that they were scared that they may be taken advantage. All it took was having a few sales people who could give the customer the time they needed to answer and understand all of their questions about our products. My total sales that year doubled simply by word of mouth that we were the company to go to that offered Spanish customer service.

Besides mortgages there are lot of companies out there that sell great products at the lowest prices but are missing out on a huge range of customers due to lack of bi-lingual customer service. The automotive parts industry is one of the most rapidly growing industries in the United States. These companies buy parts from countries all over the world for hundreds of different make and models of cars. Each and every part required for a vehicle has a specific part number that will only fit your very own specific car. It is extremely necessary to understand what part you need in order to make sure you are getting all the correct parts to get your car back on the road. I could only imagine a Spanish speaking customer who owns a German car, and needs a part from an American supplier. Without the proper customer service rep, chances are there will be some sort of miscommunication resulting in selling the wrong parts. However, just like my mortgage company, all it takes is effectively hiring bi-lingual sales reps to leave your customer happy and more than willing to spread the word for more business.

It's the year 2009 in a struggling economy, there are so many untapped resources for sales out there and all it takes is learning to communicate with all your target consumers! Best of luck....or should I say "Buena Suerte!"

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I love German wine and food so much that I am doing a series on the typical and special wines and foods of Germany. This article explores a high quality dessert wine. Was it a bargain? I'll make specific recommendations, and won't be silent if I'm unhappy with a wine.

I Love German Wine and Food - A Trockenbeerenauslese Dessert Wine
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Levi_Reiss]Levi Reiss

Perhaps you know that the different classifications of German wine depend largely on the sugar content. Among the wine styles are Spaetlese which literally means a wine coming from late-harvest grapes but in fact means one made from ripe grapes, Auslese which are late-harvest wines, Beerenauslese sweet, botryised (attacked by a "good" fungus) wine made from individually selected grapes, Eiswein made from grapes that froze on the vine, and finally Trockenbeerenauslese, individually selected shriveled grapes with a very high sugar content. I heard about such wines decades ago, but for one reason or another, only started tasting them recently.

I do remember a Parisian friend who thought it quite droll that the Germans would make a wine out of rotted grapes picked individually off the vines, never knowing that the French do as well. I have never tasted a top of the line Sauternes but did taste a second quality one that was boring. As I am writing these lines I see for sale a 1935 Sauternes by the same producer for well over $400. What luck that the closest bottle is a two-hour drive away.

While Trockenbeerenauslese wine is produced in most German wine regions, in general it represents only about one percent of the total wine production. So these wines are not always available, especially in a relatively moderate price range. They are often sold in half-bottles. Given their sweetness and their thickness, they are wines for sipping. A bit of advice to the youth: If you are going to get drunk, stay away from machinery, cars, boats, and power tools. And don't get drunk or even drink a lot of such sweet wines. You won't enjoy them at the time, and you'll feel really sick afterward.

Unlike the other articles in this series, we are not proposing any sample menu. And we didn't have the heart to try this wine with cheese, whether high quality or not. Actually sweet wines are often paired with cheese - but not here.

OUR WINE REVIEW POLICY All wines that we taste and review are purchased at the full retail price.

Wine Reviewed

Anselmann Ortega Trockenbeerenauslese 1999 11% alcohol about $28 (half-bottle)

Let's start by quoting the marketing materials. This multi-award winning wine is made from the seldom seen Ortega grape, a cross between Mueller-Thurgau and Siegerrebe. Ortega's full-flavored nature and very bright fruitiness make it a natural for creating dessert wines.

Trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) is the German designation for totally botrytis-affected wines, similar in style to Bordeaux's Sauternes. The sweet, ripe, soft and very approachable full-bodied wine is an excellent dessert onto itself or serve it with mature cheeses. And now for my review.

Alone the wine was very disappointing, perhaps because decades passed between my first hearing of this wine, and finally tasting it. The first pairing alongside an apple cake with mint chocolate was excellent.

I then tried it with thin biscuits containing sliced almonds and pistachios. The wine had a nice and thick texture. The TBA was quite long and very powerful. A tiny sip filled one's mouth. It was pleasantly sour. This is the sort of wine that you don't want to have every day. I didn't rush the pairings; the wine won't spoil, at least not for a long, long time.

The next pairing was with high-quality chocolate-covered orange peels. The wine had just the right acidity and sweetness, however not very complex flavors. It was not excellent but very pleasurable. Then I went to home made biscotti with fine apricot preserves. This dessert intensified the TBA's fruit. Another pairing was with a ripe honeydew. The wine was sweet and syrupy, the word luscious came to mind and there were lots and lots of flavors.

Then followed (perhaps weeks later) a home made orange cake with chocolate and fresh strawberries. The combo intensified the wine's orange flavor or should I say flavors. Another time I went with a really fine chocolate covered vanilla ice cream bar. At first the wine seemed to disappear but it was fairly long. Sweet and sweet went together, and I felt decadent. When the ice cream was gone, the drop or two of wine remaining in the glass was mouth filling. We are almost at the end of the bottle.

With an Almond Raspberry Crostata pie the TBA remained strong and musky; the dominant taste was apricot. The last pairing was with a very lemony French pie whose crust was loaded with butter. Great combo. Citrus and more.

Final verdict. I like this wine, but there are plenty of dessert wines to try and to retry.

Levi Reiss has authored or co-authored ten books on computers and the Internet, but to be honest, he would rather just drink fine Italian, French, or other wine, accompanied by the right foods and spend time with his wife and family. He teaches classes in computers at an Ontario French-language community college. Among his many web sites he is particularly proud of his new love and relationships site celebrating mostly spiritual and on occasion physical love at [http://www.loveamourlove.com]http://www.loveamourlove.com. You will find a wide range of articles devoted to various aspects of love, and a special collection of love quotes in both English and French (with translations.) Check out his global wine website at http://www.theworldwidewine.com with his new weekly column reviewing $10 wines.

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Born on May 10, 1754, at St. Jurgen in Schleswig, Denmark, Asmus Jacob Carstens or Asmus Carstens was a Danish-German, 'Neo-Classical' painter and a draughtsman. At the age of twenty-two, in the year 1776, he started studying at the Copenhagen Academy. Here he made his first painting, "The Death of Aeschylus." For further studies in Arts, in 1783, he moved to Italy, where the works of Giulio Romano intensely enchanted and influenced him. He wanted to visit Rome too, but short funds curtailed his journey to Mantua only.

Danish-German Painter & Engraver, the Neo-Classical Way - Asmus Jacob Carstens (1754 - 1798)
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Annette_Labedzki]Annette Labedzki

Born on May 10, 1754, at St. Jurgen in Schleswig, Denmark, Asmus Jacob Carstens or Asmus Carstens was a Danish-German, 'Neo-Classical' painter and a draughtsman. At the age of twenty-two, in the year 1776, he started studying at the Copenhagen Academy. Here he made his first painting, "The Death of Aeschylus." For further studies in Arts, in 1783, he moved to Italy, where the works of Giulio Romano intensely enchanted and influenced him. He wanted to visit Rome too, but short funds curtailed his journey to Mantua only.

Eventually, the artist settled down at Lubeck, Germany, as a portrait painter. Asmus' celebrated creation, "fall of the Angels," features over 200 figures. This competent painting earned him the position of a professor at the reputed Berlin Academy, where he joined in 1788. The artist was famous and admired among his students, including Bertel Thorvaldsen and Joseph Anton Koch. His inspirations contributed largely to the 'German Historical Paintings' such as "Home Singing." After his four years teaching stint at the Berlin Academy, Asmus quit, as he got an opportunity to travel to his dream destination, Rome.

After a decade's savings from his earnings and with some arranged financial help, the artist managed to go to Rome in 1792, where he stayed until his death. Here, he exhibited his work in 1795. His devotion towards his artistry and his 'Neo-Classicism' impressed several international artists of repute. To his delight, Carstens spent his last and most productive years of the eighteenth century in Rome. Dynamic brush strokes on well-outlined, classically elegant forms & structures, characterized Carstens' 'subject' & 'historical' works. His pictures were usually inspired from Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, and Ossian. "Plato's Symposium" and the "Battle of Rossbach" are his magnum opus. One of his finest pieces, "Megapont," was measured-up against the creations of legendary artists like Raphael and Michelangelo. In 1795, a large solo exhibition of his works was held in Rome.

Carstens also founded the School of German Historical Paintings. He died at a young age of forty-four on May 25, 1798, in Rome. Karl Ludwig Fernow, who had known Asmus Carstens since his childhood days, became close friends with him during their stay at Rome. Fernow has beautifully captured and documented the artist's journey of life.

Annette Labedzki received her BFA at the Emily Carr College of Art and Design in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She has more than 25 years experience. She is the founder and developer of an online art gallery featuring original art from all over the world. It is a great site for art collectors to buy original art. Is is also a venue for artists to display and sell their art . Artists can join for free and their image upload is unlimited. Please visit the website at http://www.labedzki-art.com

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