Franz Pforr
Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 – 16 June 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.
Franz Pforr
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- Name
- Franz Pforr
- Born
- 5 April 1788
- Birthplace
- Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
- Died
- 12 June 1812
- Place of death
- Albano Laziale, French Empire
- Movement
- Nazarene
- Known for
- Painting
- Nationality
- Germany
- Occupation
- painter · graphic artist
- Education
- Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
- Languages
- German
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• Name — Franz Pforr • Born — 5 April 1788 • Birthplace — Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire • Died — 12 June 1812 • Place of death — Albano Laziale, French Empire • Movement — Nazarene • Known for — Painting
Biography
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• Illustration — Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810 He was born in Frankfurt am Main. He received his earliest training from his father, the painter Johann Georg Pforr (1745–98), and his uncle, the art professor and first inspector of the painting gallery in Kassel, Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger (1742–1808). While studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Pforr moved in 1810 to Rome in the company of other students, including Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Ludwig Vogel and Johann Konrad Hottinger. Looking for lost spirituality in their art, they lived at the abandoned monastery of Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case. Pforr did not live long enough to see his art acknowledged. He died of tuberculosis in Albano Laziale, Rome at age 24.
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1788
Franz Pforr born at Frankfurt.
1812
Franz Pforr died at Albano Laziale.
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Stemmler, Gunter: "Die „Bürgermeisterkette“ in Franz Pforrs Gemälde ´Der Einzug des Königs Rudolf von Habsburg in Basel 1273´. Anregungen, Vorlagen und historische Hinweise", in Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s., 20, 2009, pp. 219–236 Thommen, Heinrich: Im Schatten des Freundes: Arbeitsmaterialien von Franz Pforr im Nachlass Ludwig Vogels. Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2010, (Schriften der Stiftung für Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts Olten),.
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