HE IS G[O]OD.
Being in considerable pain from an undiagnosed illness (potentially Crohn's) Hans developed the self-medicated strategy of pinching his lower right rib to alleviate the pain away from his digestive system. He then went about expertly creating a collection of sculpted character heads, in marble and bronze, depicting the faces he made in the mirror whilst doing the pinch.
When you think about the eighteenth century world of Rococo pastel violence we're used to seeing, these character busts seem unusually self-expressive before their time.
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