Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | |
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 Self portrait, c. 1780 | |
| Born | February 6, 1736 Swabia, Germany |
| Died | August 19, 1783 (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.