Franz xaver messerschmitt biography of mahatma gandhi
Franz xaver messerschmitt biography of mahatma gandhi
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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
German sculptor
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt | |
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Self portrait, c. 1780 | |
| Born | February 6, 1736 Swabia, Germany |
| Died | August 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.
Early years
Born February 6, 1736, in the southwestern town of thence Bavarian Wiesensteig, located in the region of (now) Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Messerschmidt grew up in the Munich home of his uncle, the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub, who became his first master.
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He spent two years in Graz, in the workshop of his other maternal uncle, the sculptor Philipp Jakob Straub. At the end of 1755 he matriculated at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and became a pupil of Jacob Schletterer. Graduated, he got work at the i