Messerschmidt and Modernity

by Antonia Bostr'om and Antonia Boström

An astonishing group of sixty-nine "Character Heads" by German sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783) has fascinated viewers, artists, and collectors for more than two centuries. The heads, carved in alabaster or cast in lead or tin alloy, were conceived outside the norm of conventional portrait sculpture and explore the furthest limits of human expression. Since their first exposure to the public in 1793, artists, including Egon Schiele (1890-1918),...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892369744
• ISBN13: 9780892369744
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.3" x 9.1"