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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 247,938 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Franz Xaver Messerschmidt is the 57th most popular sculptor (down from 56th in 2019), the 1,598th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,531st in 2019) and the 3rd most popular German Sculptor.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.61

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 57 out of 189. Before him are Tilman Riemenschneider, Isamu Noguchi, Paeonius, Ageladas, Andreas Schlüter, and Chares of Lindos. After him are Bernardo Rossellino, Antenor, Katarzyna Kobro, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Robert Smithson, and Igor Mitoraj.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt ranks 1,598 out of 6,142. Before him are Viktor Brack (1904), Mike Nichols (1931), Wilhelm Backhaus (1884), Horst Eckel (1932), Heinrich Göbel (1818), and Gottfried Böhm (1920). After him are Wolfgang Wagner (1919), Johann Arndt (1555), Werner Jaeger (1888), Sebastian Vettel (1987), Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757), and John Heartfield (1891).

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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 Igor Mitoraj (1944), Johann Gottfried Schadow (1764), Adolf von Hildebrand (1847), Christian Daniel Rauch (1777), Adam Kraft (1450), Rebecca Horn (1944), Rudolf Belling (1886), Georg Kolbe (1877), and Eva Hesse (1936).

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