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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt information


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

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Messerschmidt

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cinematographer Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), Austrian sculptor Harold O. Messerschmidt (1923–1944), American soldier Jana Messerschmidt (born 1990)...

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Neue Galerie New York

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000 postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte from 1907-1920. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism opened on September...

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Neoclassicism

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leading German artists, with Franz Anton von Zauner in Austria. The late Baroque Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt turned to Neoclassicism in...

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Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

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(born 1991) Gottfried Lindauer – Czech and New Zealand artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt – German sculptor Vera Nedkova – Bulgarian modernist painter (1906–1996)...

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Wiesensteig

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(Geislingen-Wiesensteig) to the national rail network. With the Franz Xaver Messerschmidt School Wiesensteig has a primary and a high school with Werkrealschule...

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Vienna

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paintings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, as well as sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. A variety of architectural styles have been preserved in Vienna...

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Vienna Museum

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Gerstl Kara Mustafa Pasha Simplicity of the highest degree by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Portrait of Emilie Louise Flöge by Gustav Klimt Self-portrait...

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Tronie

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century portraitist whose less formal works use extreme expressions Franz Xaver Messerschmidt – Austrian sculptor best known for his extreme "character heads"...

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Baroque sculpture

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of the most unusual German sculptors in the late Baroque was Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, who was known both for religious sculpture and for a series of...

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Joseph Ducreux

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painting and the "character heads" of contemporary Austrian sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), some of whose busts were self-portraits with extreme...

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February 6

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1732 – Charles Lee, English-American general (d. 1782) 1736 – Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, German-Austrian sculptor (d. 1783) 1744 – Pierre-Joseph Desault...

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Martin van Meytens

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and in 1759 the director of the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts. Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was his protégé. Meytens was one of the most significant Austrian...

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List of sculptors

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Messager (born 1943), France Jean Messagier (1920–1999), France Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), Germany/Austria Ivan Meštrović (1883–1962),...

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Philipp Jakob Straub

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and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Straub was born in Wiesensteig in Germany and studied in Munich...

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Max Hollein

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"Sahure – Death and Life of a Great Pharaoh", "Gods in Color ", "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt" were received with unprecedented attention. "Gods in Color" underlines...

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Johann Baptist Straub

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and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. J. B. Straub studied in Munich with the court sculptor Gabriel...

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History of Bratislava

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in April 1945, see above Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724–1796), Austrian painter working in Pressburg Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783), sculptor, who...

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Harald Szeemann

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with bronze cast self-portraits of the eighteenth-century artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, an ancestral figure to contemporary performance art. Szeemann...

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Balthasar Ferdinand Moll

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from 1751 to 1754. One of his pupils at the Vienna Academy was Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783). His later work possesses classical character. In...

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Ernst Kris

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"Ein geisteskranker Bildhauer" (A mentally ill sculptor) on Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. During the end of the 1910s and the beginning of the 1920s, Kris...

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Compton Verney Art Gallery

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Between Susan Hiller: The J Street Project 2006 Francis Bacon and Franz Xaver Messerschmidt Van Gogh and Britain: Pioneer Collectors The Starry Messenger:...

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Lorenzo Mattielli

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the contorted faces of “character heads” made by the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783). Upper Belvedere (1721–1722) : hall with atlases Dominikanerkirche...

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Jill Lloyd

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Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy of Art, London (1985) ‘Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, Character Heads/Arnulf Rainer, Overdrawings,’ ICA, London (1987)...

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

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[citation needed] Lavater's studies have also been related to Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's work as a sculptor. His work being mentioned by Ernst Gombrich...

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Hubert Maurer

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where one of his instructors, the mentally unstable sculptor, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, apparently tried to murder him in a fit of paranoia.[citation...

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