Bronze Character Head after Messerschmidt (3 of 3)

Between 1770 and his death in 1783, Franz Xaver Messerschmidt made a series of 69 busts that art history has never quite settled. They are not portraits and not allegory, but extreme facial expressions, each one based on his own face. Contemporaries called him eccentric; later generations saw something else, an early and radical study of what a human face can carry: fear, concentration, pain, the grimace that surfaces when self-control gives way.

This character head is modelled after The Incompetent Bassoonist, the face drawn tight between strain and concentration, lips pressed and puckered. It is cast by the cire perdue (lost-wax) method and finished with a dark brown patina on a black marble base. This is the third of three Messerschmidt heads in the KUZCO Art Maison collection.

Shown alone or as part of the set of three, it is a museum-quality piece for collectors, galleries and design-led interiors.

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