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The bust of a bald man with a deeply furrowed brow a sculpture cast from tin alloy by the Austrian court sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and approved ...
The Messerschmidt sculptural portraits capture a rich variety of human emotions. His heads snooze, yawn, shout, and on occasion contort their faces into grimaces of embarrassment or disgust. The ...
This is a perfectly sane-looking 18th-century portrait sculpture. Placid expression, vacant gaze, ridiculous necktie — the normal nine yards. The following sculptures by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, on ...
“Anything great in this world has come from neurotics,” Marcel Proust wrote. He could easily have been referring to a string of manic, morose and sometimes quite mad artists who came and went over the ...
Through the use of little more than folds, Messerschmidt conjured baffled joy, pure anguish, leering sadism and other ...
In 2025, visitors can look forward to 21 exhibitions at three locations, as well as numerous publications and projects in the fields of education, mediation, inclusion and research. The so-called ...
“A small but potent retrospective” at New York’s Neue Gallerie sheds a fascinating light on the strange case—and even stranger art—of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, said Holland Cotter in The New York ...
Of the twenty-four busts in this show, only one sports a smile: “The Artist as He Imagined Himself Laughing.” Although the titles of Messerschmidt’s “character heads” were added after his death, it is ...
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