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Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

1736 - 1783

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt has received more than 260,366 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is the 64th most popular sculptor (down from 57th in 2019), the 1,701st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,598th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Sculptor.

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  • 1.69

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 64 out of 258. Before him are Lars Vilks, Isamu Noguchi, Wäinö Aaltonen, Antenor, Andrea Sansovino, and Paeonius. After him are Bernardo Rossellino, Francesco Laurana, Pietro Bernini, Yaacov Agam, Antonio Corradini, and François Girardon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1736, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 12. Before him are James Macpherson, Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé, and Princess Friederike of Brandenburg-Schwedt. After him are Edward Waring, Johannes Nikolaus Tetens, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Anton Graff, Friedrich Kasimir Medikus, and Patrick Henry. Among people deceased in 1783, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 9. Before him are Étienne Bézout, Johann Adolph Hasse, Grigory Orlov, Carl Linnaeus the Younger, Yosa Buson, and Antonio Soler. After him are Johann Kirnberger, Princess Caroline Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Benedict Joseph Labre, Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Johann Jakob Bodmer, and Christian Mayer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 1,701 out of 7,253. Before him are Louis IX, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt (1719), Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884), Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (1651), Anna of Saxony (1544), Philipp Ludwig, Count Palatine of Neuburg (1547), and Heino (1938). After him are John Heartfield (1891), Hans Albert (1921), Joschka Fischer (1948), Andreas Achenbach (1815), Gisela of Swabia (990), and Hans Berger (1873).

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Among SCULPTORS In Germany

Among sculptors born in Germany, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 3. Before him are Veit Stoss (1450), and Tilman Riemenschneider (1460). After him are Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Igor Mitoraj (1944), Christian Daniel Rauch (1777), Adam Kraft (1450), Clara Westhoff (1878), Georg Kolbe (1877), Rebecca Horn (1944), and Rudolf Belling (1886).

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