Franz Pforr was a painter of the German

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 Nazarene movement

Nazarene movement

The name Nazarene was adopted by a group of early 19th century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive honesty and spirituality in Christian art...

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He was born in Frankfurt am Main.He received his earliest training from his father, the painter Johann Georg Pforr (1745–98), and his uncle, the art professor and first inspector of the painting gallery in Kassel, Johann Heinrich Tischbein the younger (1742–1808).
While studying at the Vienna

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 academy, Pforr moved in 1810 to Rome

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 in company of other students, including Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Johann Friedrich Overbeck , was a German painter and member of the Nazarene movement. He also made four etchings.-Biography:...

, Ludwig Vogel

Ludwig Vogel

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 and Johann Konrad Hottinger. Looking for lost spirituality in their art, they lived at the abandoned monastery

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 of San Isidoro.

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

Tuberculosis

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 in Albano Laziale

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, Rome at age 24.