Located on the facade of Vienna's Burgtheater along with others, this bust depicts Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer as a middle-aged man with a stern face and most of his hair shifted to his right side. The work is probably a bit larger than life-sized and seems to be made of marble.
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"Franz Seraphicus Grillparzer (15 January 1791 – 21 January 1872) was an Austrian writer who is chiefly known for his dramas. He also wrote the oration for Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral...
Works
Dramas
Blanche of Castile|Blanka von Kastilien (1807–09)
Spartacus|Spartakus (1809)
Alfred the Great|Alfred der Große (1809)
Die Ahnfrau (1817)
Sappho (1818)
Das goldene Vlies (1821), trilogy consisting of
Der Gastfreund
Die Argonauten
Medea
Melusina (1822–23)
König Ottokars Glück und Ende (The Fortune and Fall of King Ottokar, 1823)
Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn (1826)
Des Meeres und der Liebe Wellen (1831)
Der Traum, ein Leben (1834)
Tristia ex Ponto (1835)
Weh dem, der lügt (1838)
Libussa (1848)
Ein Bruderzwist im Hause Habsburg (1848)
Die Jüdin von Toledo (The Jewess of Toledo, 1851)
Esther (a fragment, 1861)
Novellas
Das Kloster bei Sendomir (1827)
Der arme Spielmann (1848)"