Franz Pforr
{{Short description|German painter}}
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{{Infobox artist
| name = Franz Pforr
| image = Franz Pforr 003.jpg
| caption = Self-portrait by Pforr (1810)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1788|04|05|df=y}}
| birth_place = Frankfurt, Holy Roman Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1812|06|12|1788|04|05|df=yes}}
| death_place = Albano Laziale, Rome
| movement = Nazarene
| known_for = Painting
}}
Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 – 16 June 1812){{Citation |last=Bertsch |first=Markus |title=Pforr, Franz (1788–1812) |date=2011 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-00206-8_62 |work=Goethe Handbuch: Band 3: Kunst |pages=537–540 |editor-last=Beyer |editor-first=Andreas |access-date=2023-04-09 |place=Stuttgart |publisher=J.B. Metzler |language=de |doi=10.1007/978-3-476-00206-8_62 |isbn=978-3-476-00206-8 |editor2-last=Osterkamp |editor2-first=Ernst|url-access=subscription }} was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.
Biography
Image:Friedrich Overbeck 010.jpg, 1810]]
He was born in Frankfurt am Main.{{Cite book |url=https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-476-00206-8 |title=Goethe-Handbuch Supplemente |year=2011 |publisher=J.B. Metzler Stuttgart |isbn=978-3-476-02163-2 |editor-last=Beyer |editor-first=Andreas |pages=547 |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-476-00206-8 |editor-last2=Osterkamp |editor-first2=Ernst}} 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.
External links
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Literature
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), {{ISBN|978-3-7965-2700-5}}.
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