By: Maria Poezl – Malikova
ISBN 3 – 7141 –6794 – 3
Original publisher : Jugend und Volk Wien
Muenchen 1982
(Note: The publisher no longer exists,
all copy and publishing rights to the book have reverted
to the original Author Ms. Malikova)
Supported by the Austrian Ministry of Science and
Research, Vienna
Translation into
English 2006,
by Herbert
Ranharter
with permission and in cooperation with the
original author Professor
Maria Poetzl-Malikova
The 1984 German edition of this book written by Ms. Poetzl Malikova is the undisputed definitive work about Franz Xaver Messerschmidt.
All original artwork, photographs and text are the sole property of Ms. Malikova who has possession of the artwork. Ms. Malikova has consented to allow Mr. Ranharter to make the translation and negotiate all aspects of publication of the work on her behalf.
Original Book - statistics:
German Edition, 1982
See Friedrich Nikolai's
travel-log in its original form in German right below, note
that the language appears a bit peculiar by today’s standards.
Great care has been taken to maintain Nikolai's sentence structures in the
English translation to convey the feeling of the original and to underscore
a very important point about the life and times of FXM which the translator
is making. This adherence to Nikolai's original sentence structures
accounts for some of the awkwardness of the English language in the translation
of this page. Click
here to see the English translation of Nikolai's travel-log FXM book page
145.
click pages to see the full size German original
