The heads of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt

[Bonecradle]

As busts seem to be a popular subject in Zbrush I though a few of you might like to see the work of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.

A search showed he hasn't been mentioned before so maybe this is a recondite corner of the art world and net that even Frenchy hasn't seen? ;)

Messerschmidt was an 18 century 'German' sculptor who towards the later half of his career and life embarked on a study of the human head and its expressions.

Unfortunately the pictures are quite small but I hope some might enjoy them any way :)

FXM 1 (http://www.limmat.ch/schmid/fxm/gallery.html)

FXM 2 (http://www.norbertschmitt.de/messerschmidt/koepfe.htm)

[sirquadalot]

Very disturbing, but thank you. :cool:

[juandel]

yep, its a shame there are mostly tiny reproductions of FXM online, bonecradle! back when ZBrush’s character headologist Ken B. :) did his red hed series

1 (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006448&p=) 2 (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006490&p=) 3 (http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=006685)

i found a few FXMs (5 heads only) to zoom in:

FXM-zoom (http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/messersc/index.html)

- juandel

[Bonecradle]

So much for the search eh :rolleyes:

But at least it meant I got to see Ken's red heads.

Looking at 10+ pages of posts I am now wondering what treasures are buried within.

[Frenchy Pilou]

Hi Bonecradle
I can't give all the sculpture faces sites in the forum :)
Ps I have given the start links of Juandel's site :)
Your 2 sites are very interesting and funny !
If you take the subway all the days you will seen all these faces without problem and surely more :)
Pilou