Franz Pforr

Franz Pforr ( born April 5, 1788 in Frankfurt am Main, † June 16, 1812 in Albano Laziale in Rome ) was a painter of German Romanticism.

Life

Franz Pforr was the son of Johann Georg Pforr and Johanna Christiane Pforr, born table leg. His father was a specialist on horse painter, who was highly regarded in Frankfurt. At the age of 12 years lost Franz Pforr his parents and a year later his only brother. His uncle Johann Heinrich Tischbein, painter, engraver and Inspector of the Picture Gallery of the Landgrave of Hesse -Kassel, took him in 1801 in Kassel in his custody, furthered his education and supported his application to the Vienna Academy of Art, where he in 1805 was recorded.

This institution was managed at that time in the spirit of strict classicism of Heinrich Friedrich Füger. Just as some friends and fellow students, including Friedrich Overbeck, Konrad Hottinger and Ludwig Vogel, he was dissatisfied with the training at the academy. The students went missing in the vernunftdurchdrungenen strictly oriented on the outer classical form of art as they mediated the Academy, the depth of soul. They sought their own way and found him in reference to the past. We did find that the further we went away, we left more and more of the principles of the Academy, on the other hand, we found that we were the kind of old painter approached more and more.

The artistic contrast to the academy eventually led to serious external conflicts. 1809 came on the one hand to the exclusion from the Academy, on the other hand, to the founding of St. Luke by the young artists. Overbeck, Hottinger, bird and Pforr left Vienna in 1810 to draw on the study of old Italian masters and to develop their painting to Rome. There, they created a genre that would become known later under the name of Nazarene art and should determine as an important current within the romantic art the first half of the 19th century instrumental with.

Pforr himself did not live to witness the opening of his art to the general recognition. At the age of 24 he died of tuberculosis.

Life's work

In his short life, Franz Pforr could create only a handful of paintings and several hundred drawings. Nevertheless, he is one of the important painters of German Romanticism and influenced the movement of the Luke brothers crucial. Especially his 1811 arisen allegorical panel painting Sulamith and Maria is considered archetypal for the Nazarenertum, the religious-minded German Romanticism. The religious theme is linked to a wealth of allusions to the life of his friend Overbeck, his own life and the marriage and spousal love.

For this there is a friendship image counterpart, the Overbeck painted for Pforr: The no less famous works Italia and Germania.

In addition to this picture Franz Pforr left the painting The Count of Habsburg, Emperor Rudolf collection in Basel and in 1923 retrieved Saint George the dragon slayer.

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