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Johann Georg Pforr - Hunting Party in a Panoramic Landscape

Auction 1197 - overview Cologne
21.05.2022, 11:00 - Old Masters
Estimate: 12.000 € - 14.000 €
Result: 10.000 € (incl. premium)
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Johann Georg Pforr

Hunting Party in a Panoramic Landscape

Oil on panel (parquetted). 64.5 x 81.5 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: J. G. Pforr 1788.

After working for the porcelain manufactory in Kassel from 1769 onwards, Johann Georg Pforr entered the painter's academy in Kassel in 1778 and became a pupil of Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder, whose daughter Johanna Christiane he married in 1784. Pforr's special interest was the depiction of animals and especially horses; this later earned him the nickname of the "German Wouwerman". Having moved to Frankfurt am Main in 1781, Pforr achieved great recognition among the contemporary public.

Provenance

Auctioned by Bukowskis, Stockholm 10.2.1890 (or 1896), lot 44 (with a cutting from the catalogue and a hand-written annotation on the reverse). - Private collection, Hesse.