Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736 - 1783) was an Austrian sculptor most famous for his "character heads", a collection of busts of faces contorted in extreme facial expressions. External links http://insel.heim.at/hawaii/310945/Charakterkopfe.html This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.