Franz Pforr
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Franz Pforr (April 5, 1788–June 16, 1812) was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.
He was born in Frankfurt am Main. 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 in Albano Laziale, Rome at age 24.
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