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Johann Georg Pforr BIOGRAPHY
1745 - 1798. Known for: Painting and sculpture.
Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor... Read full biography
Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor Akad founded by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse Cassel. Kassel; receives here a prize for an animal... Read full biography
Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor Akad founded by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse Cassel. Kassel; receives here a prize for an animal still life with partridges; the landgrave acquires several fishes. and hunting pieces. 1779 Member of the Akad .; 1781 moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked as a freelance painter. In 1784 he married... Read full biography
Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor Akad founded by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse Cassel. Kassel; receives here a prize for an animal still life with partridges; the landgrave acquires several fishes. and hunting pieces. 1779 Member of the Akad .; 1781 moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked as a freelance painter. In 1784 he married Johanna Christiane Tischbein, sister of Johann Heinrich the Younger, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (known as Goethe Tischbein) and Jacob Tischbein.... Read full biography
Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor Akad founded by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse Cassel. Kassel; receives here a prize for an animal still life with partridges; the landgrave acquires several fishes. and hunting pieces. 1779 Member of the Akad .; 1781 moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked as a freelance painter. In 1784 he married Johanna Christiane Tischbein, sister of Johann Heinrich the Younger, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (known as Goethe Tischbein) and Jacob Tischbein.... Read full biography
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Jakob Sigismund Waitz, baron of Eschen, brought him to Kassel as porcelain painter. As a porcelain painter P. attributed some decors with birds and trees.1778 Admission to the painter and sculptor Akad founded by Landgrave Friedrich II of Hesse Cassel. Kassel; receives here a prize for an animal still life with partridges; the landgrave acquires several fishes. and hunting pieces.
1779 Member of the Akad .; 1781 moved to Frankfurt am Main and worked as a freelance painter. In 1784 he married Johanna Christiane Tischbein, sister of Johann Heinrich the Younger, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm (known as Goethe Tischbein) and Jacob Tischbein....But wait, there's more...
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