{"product_id":"bronzen-hoofd-18e-eeuw-3","title":"Bronze Character Head after Messerschmidt (3 of 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis character head is modelled after \u003cem\u003eThe Incompetent Bassoonist\u003c\/em\u003e, the face drawn tight between strain and concentration, lips pressed and puckered. It is cast by the \u003cem\u003ecire perdue\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShown alone or as part of the set of three, it is a museum-quality piece for collectors, galleries and design-led interiors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kuzco Art Maison","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48772915593563,"sku":"KB0016","price":1145.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0863\/6540\/5531\/files\/Kuzco_bronze_sculpture_head_bronze_patina_3_green_da20e70f-c7ac-462e-b557-a1b082358b00.jpg?v=1727092098","url":"https:\/\/kuzcoartmaison.com\/en\/products\/bronze-character-head-after-messerschmidt-3","provider":"Kuzco Art Maison","version":"1.0","type":"link"}