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Franz Pforr
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Self-portrait by Pforr (1810)
Born (1788-04-05)5 April 1788
Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
Died 12 June 1812(1812-06-12) (aged 24)
Albano Laziale, Rome
Known for Painting
Movement Nazarene

Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 – 16 June 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

Biography

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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 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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