Franz Pforr (5 April 1788 – 16 June 1812)[1] was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.

While studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 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 Sant’Isidoro a Capo le Case.

Media related to Franz Pforr at Wikimedia Commons Stemmler, Gunter: Die „Bürgermeisterkette“ in Franz Pforrs Gemälde ´Der Einzug des Königs Rudolf von Habsburg in Basel 1273´.

Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2010, (Schriften der Stiftung für Kunst des 19.