[PLATZHALTERTEXT]Vervielfältigungen eines Werkes dieser Webseite für Text- und Data-Mining und damit insbesondere für das Training einer Künstlichen Intelligenz bleibt ausdrücklich vorbehalten (§ 42h Abs 6 UrhG).https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65368/full"Character Head" No. 6Zweiter Schnabelkopf1777/178142,5 x 26 x 24,5 cm
Alabaster, mottled brownish stone56401
Some of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s “Character Heads” appear realistic and evoke familiar emotions. Others are clearly distorted, even grotesquely contorted. The most radical case is this head: the lower part of the face has been shaped into something like a pointed beak. The work is made of alabaster, a gypsum stone similar to marble that can be carved with great precision and easily polished.
It is still unclear what motivated Messerschmidt to create these objects, so unusual for their time. Their fascination, however, is beyond doubt. Artists have repeatedly found in them a source of inspiration for their own work.Sculpture114083334389Upper Belvedereimage/jpegCC-BY-SA 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65368/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65369/fullimage/jpegCC-BY-SA 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/118816/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/118817/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/118818/fullimage/jpegIn CopyrightFoto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/118819/fullimage/jpegCC-BY-SA 4.0http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/Foto: Johannes Stoll / Belvedere, Wienhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65370/fullmodel/gltf-binaryIn CopyrightFotogrammetrie: Belvedere, Wien https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/165293/fullhttps://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-4389/manifest