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Franz Pforr

Born: Frankfurt-am-Main, 5 April 1788
Died: Albano (near Rome), 16 June 1812
Nationality: German
Background: 

son of painter Johann Georg Pforr

Studies: 

with father and uncle (Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Younger);  Vienna Academy (Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, 1805)

Career: 

1805 – enters Vienna Academy; volunteers as a guard in Vienna militia; suffers nervous breakdown

1806 – returns to Vienna Academy

1809 – co-founds Nazarenes (Lukasbund) with Friedrich Overbeck, Ludwig Vogel, Joseph Wintergerst, Joseph Sutter and Johann Konrad Hottinger

1810 – moves to Rome with Nazarenes

1812 - drowns

Travels

Rome (1810-12)

Important Artworks: 

St. George and the Dragon, c. 1809-10 (Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt)

Shulamit and Maria, 1811 (Schafer Collection, Schweinfurt)