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Franz Pforr Knights Before a Charcoal Burner's Hut oil painting


Knights Before a Charcoal Burner's Hut
Painting ID::  1153
Franz Pforr
Knights Before a Charcoal Burner's Hut


   
   
     

Franz Pforr Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel in 1273 (mk22) oil painting


Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel in 1273 (mk22)
Painting ID::  22798
Franz Pforr
Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basel in 1273 (mk22)
1808-1810 Oil on canvas,90.5 x 118.9 cm Frankfurt am Main,Stadelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie

   
   
     

Franz Pforr Shulamit and Mary (mk22) oil painting


Shulamit and Mary (mk22)
Painting ID::  22799
Franz Pforr
Shulamit and Mary (mk22)
1811 Oil on wood panel,34 x 32 cm Schweinfurt,Sammlung Georg Schafer

   
   
     

Franz Pforr The Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basle oil painting


The Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basle
Painting ID::  43925
Franz Pforr
The Entry of Emperor Rudolf of Habsburg into Basle
1809-10 Oil on canvas, 90 x 119 cm

   
   
     

Franz Pforr Shulamit and Maria oil painting


Shulamit and Maria
Painting ID::  43928
Franz Pforr
Shulamit and Maria
1810-11 Oil on wood, 34,5 x 32 cm

   
   
     

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     Franz Pforr
     German 1788-1812 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). In 1805 he became a student at the Akademie der Bildenden Kenste in Vienna, which was dominated by the severe Neo-classicism of its director, Heinrich Feger; he was taught by Hubert Maurer (1738-1818), Franz Cauzig (1762-1828) and Johann Martin Fischer. During the war with France in 1805, Pforr volunteered as a guard in the Vienna militia. He suffered a nervous breakdown, brought on by the conflict between his passionate longing for a contemplative life and a desire to see military action. He probably turned to religion to help sustain his mental equilibrium. In 1806 he resumed his academic studies and, believing himself destined to become a battle painter, made numerous drawings of historical battles, for example his still schoolish and baroquely composed Wallenstein in the Battle of L?tzen (1806; Frankfurt am Main, Stedel. Kstinst. & St?dt. Gal.). However, it was not until 1807, with Drawing with Twelve Travel Sketches (Frankfurt am Main, Stadt- & Ubib.), that he first began to overcome his beginner style and to develop his own. This resulted in reduced detail, simplified continuous contours, a structuring by means of planar rather than illusionistic criteria, a new clarity of vision and a chastened balance between nature and artistic conception.

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