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Messerschmidt picnic on the Louvre and walked down the Danube

The term "Messerschmitt" evokes a certain number of French or Europeans a German fighter plane the second world war, fearful at the time. The name of the company continued to exist in MBB merged gradually integrated into EADS, the German side. As

ago sometimes logical names / surnames worn, Messerschmidt actually means "cutler" Messer = knife and Schmidt (the English equivalent of Smith) smith (Schmied in current German).

Also the Louvre we often accustomed to nice academic exhibitions. And a few exhibitions smaller, eg on the mezzanine floor of the Richelieu wing.

The on Messerschmidt can only "stir" Imagination http://mini-site.louvre.fr/saison18e/index_f.php?expo=messerschmidt # / Messerschmidt / Introduction This with these expressive faces to realistic and unreal. Almost real-size, located at ground level, these faces are more striking than the caricatures of Daumier (in another genre, and with another goal, it is true) or the Chinese emaciated presented in some exhibitions. The fine lines, and the choice of materials (alabaster, tin-lead alloy) contribute to this strange character.

Messerschmidt, 1736-1783, Bavarians from a family of sculptors, rose gradually to the east: studies and early career in Vienna, an end after 1777 in Pressburg / Bratislava in Slovakia, an important city of the Kingdom of Hungary.

tour until 25 April 2011, prices included in the ticket "normal" in the Louvre.