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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-83)
German-born Austrian sculptor of the late Baroque* and early Neoclassical* style, and principally a portraitist, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is best known for the extraordinary series of grimacing character heads which he sculpted in lead and alabaster*. Known as "Characterkopfe", these works were produced as the sculptor fell into mental illness. As a result, some art historians have suggested they were not so much studies in pathognomy (showing 500 of 6306 characters). |
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