Franz Pforr

Born: Frankfurt-am-Main, 5 April 1788

Died: Albano (near Rome), 16 June 1812

Nationality: German


Works by this Artist

Entrance of Emperor Rudolf into Basel in 1273
Franz Pforr, 1808-10

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)

Readings

Andrews, Keith. The Nazarenes: A Brotherhood of German Painters in Rome. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964

Frank, Mitchell Benjamin. German Romantic Painting Redefined. Nazarene Tradition and the Narratives of Romanticism. Aldershot, UK-Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2001.

Grewe, Cordula. Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2009

Morowitz, Laura. Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2000

Vaughan, William. German Romanticism and English Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1979

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