Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
1736,1732
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1783
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
genre: portrait
country of citizenship: Germany
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: University of Vienna, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
occupation: sculptor
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. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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