Franz Xaver Messerschmidt
Franz Xaver Messerschmidt was a German-Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts with faces contorted in extreme facial expressions.
Self portrait, c. 1780
Character Study Strong Smell, circa 1770-1781 AD. From Austria, Pressburg, now Slovakia, Bratislava. By Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Der Glaube, from a tomb monument
Lithograph by Matthias Rudolph Toma depicting Messerschmidt's “Character Heads” (1839)
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is a public art school in Vienna, Austria.
Life drawing room at the Vienna academy, Martin Ferdinand Quadal, 1787
Main entrance on Schillerplatz
Fragment of the main building of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna
Anatomical room of the Akademie