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The Hurricane could take on the primary German fighter, the Messerschmidt Bf -109, only with difficulty, so an ad hoc strategy developed during the Battle of Britain (August 12-September 15, 1940) in which Spitfires attacked the fighter escorts while the Hurricanes hit the slower bombers.
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And then around the period of 2009 I made a number of self portraits—about 20 self-portraits—that were really to sculptures of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt, an 18th-century German sculptor, whose work I've been interested in for years.
Tony Bevan and His Self-Portraits Doretta Lau 2011
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And… I think there are aspects of Messerschmidt that I've always held in my unconscious somewhere and have always filtered through, or percolated into, other works.
Tony Bevan and His Self-Portraits Doretta Lau 2011
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Paris Art "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt" shows a selection of portraits by the German sculptor, including some of his famed expressive "character heads."
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It's only these recent works that I've referred specifically to Messerschmidt, that these are paintings through Messerschmidt, but I'm sure in the past there have been elements of those sculptures coming into these paintings.
Tony Bevan and His Self-Portraits Doretta Lau 2011
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David was shot down by a Messerschmidt Me109 on November 9, 1942, and the family was immediately notified in Geelong that David was missing in action, presumed dead.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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Messerschmidt lived long before modernism's interest in probing man's inner impulses.
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Messerschmidt was born in 1736 in Weisensteig, southeast of Stuttgart, and moved to Munich with his family at age 10 after the death of his father.
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Messerschmidt is best known for the roughly 50 "character heads" he sculpted at the end of his life, busts of men (in some cases himself) whose faces are squeezed into an extreme grimace in response to a psychological or physical state (grief, nausea).
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Neue Galerie New York 'The Yawner' (1771-83) One of the strangest yet most compelling figures in the history of art begins a star turn in Manhattan Thursday as the Neue Galerie opens "Franz Xaver Messerschmidt 1736-1783: From Neoclassicism to Expressionism."
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