Robert Waldmüller

Robert Waldmüller loved a good beard, real ones, drawn ones, any ones he could get his hands on. The 19th-century printmaker filled his shop near Vienna’s Graben with copper plates and razor-sharp lines, turning every chin into a tiny landscape of curls and stubble. If you’ve ever seen a beard in a museum and wondered who had the patience to sketch all those strands, this is your guy.

Look up his H Beard Print Collection; each sheet is a time capsule of facial hair from clerks, poets, and possibly his own shaving mirror.