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A grimacing Character Head sculpture by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt in the Upper Belvedere

Upper Belvedere · Landstraße

Franz Xaver Messerschmidt's Character Heads

Now showingPermanent collection·€23

The Belvedere holds the largest group of Messerschmidt's grimacing 18th-century "Character Heads", the sculptor's famous studies of exaggerated facial expression.

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