Franz Pforr

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Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810.
Portrait by Johann Friedrich Overbeck, 1810.

Franz Pforr (April 5, 1788 in Frankfurt am Main – June 16, 1812 in Albano Laziale, Rome) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

While studying at the Vienna academy, 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 San Isidoro.

Pforr didn't have the chance to live long enough to see his art acknowledged. He died of tuberculosis at age 24.

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