Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
Self portrait, c. 1780
BornFebruary 6, 1736
Swabia, Germany
DiedAugust 19, 1783(1783-08-19) (aged 47)
Pozsony, Hungary (today Bratislava, Slovakia)

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (February 6, 1736 – August 19, 1783) was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.

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