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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."

    What's on Around Europe 2011

  • 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

  • This solution, together with the large amount of light let in by the many windows, and the spectacular stucco work executed by Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer, Johann Michael Feichtmayr and Johann Georg Üblher create a singualrly festive, uplifting and simply transporting interior, which has justly been called "God's Ballroom".

    Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen 2009

  • But I'm thinking not only of novels like D.B. Weiss '"Lucky Wander Boy" or Xaver Beyer's "Weiter" that do talk explicitly about games; I also think of a book like Danielewski's "House of Leaves" which in its bizzare construction of space made me think that the guy certainly has played some game or another in his past.

    Come Out And Play SVGL 2009

  • 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."

    Before Expressionism, Great Expressions 2010

  • The Xaver 800 can see into a room, map it onto a screen, and maintain real-time, three dimensional updates on the locations of people within the room.

    Knight Rider: Seeing Through Walls With Infrared Glasses? 2009

  • On a hot summer afternoon in June of 1922, Franz Xaver Kugler, the owner of a Gasthaus high in the Deisenhofner Kugler-Alm in Bavaria realized that he did not have enough beer to accomodate all of his guests for the day, both bicyclists as well as mountain hikers.

    Everything old is new again.. Michele 2005

  • On a hot summer afternoon in June of 1922, Franz Xaver Kugler, the owner of a Gasthaus high in the Deisenhofner Kugler-Alm in Bavaria realized that he did not have enough beer to accomodate all of his guests for the day, both bicyclists as well as mountain hikers.

    Celebrating May 1st in Heidelberg Michele 2005

  • Xaver Neher, was involved in the administration of a dairy company.

    Erwin Neher - Autobiography 1992

  • Xaver Schmid (d. 1883; in 1856 he became a Protestant); Jakob Merten

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

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