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Franz West was born on 16 February, 1947 in Vienna, Austria, is a Franz West was Austrian artist Austrian artist. Discover Franz West's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 16 February 1947
Birthday 16 February
Birthplace Vienna, Austria
Date of death 26 July, 2012
Died Place Vienna, Austria
Nationality Austria

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1947

Franz West (16 February 1947 – 25 July 2012) was an Austrian artist.

He is best known for his unconventional objects and sculptures, installations and furniture work which often require an involvement of the audience.

West was born on 16 February 1947 in Vienna.

His father was a coal dealer, his mother a dentist who took her son with her on art-viewing trips to Italy.

1970

West began making drawings around 1970 before moving on to painted collages incorporating magazine images that showed the influence of Pop Art.

His art practice started as a reaction to the Viennese Actionism movement has been exhibited in museums and galleries for more than three decades.

Over the last 20 years he had a regular presence in big expositions like Documenta and the Venice Biennale.

West's artwork is typically made out of plaster, papier-mâché, wire, polyester, aluminium and other, ordinary materials.

He started to produce paintings, but then turned to collages, sculptures, portable sculptures called "Adaptives" or "Fitting Pieces", environments and furniture – "welded metal chairs and divans, some minimally padded and upholstered in raw linen."

For his early sculptures, West often covered ordinary objects—bottles, machine parts, pieces of furniture and other, unidentifiable things—with gauze and plaster, producing "lumpy, grungy, dirty-white objects".

1977

West did not begin to study art seriously until he was 26, when, between 1977 and 1983, he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with Bruno Gironcoli.

1980

Around 1980 West started to create "plaster objects, usually a few feet long, meant to be placed over the face, worn around the waist or held in the crook of the neck. Although they suggest masks and props for the commedia dell'arte, their shapes are usually ambiguous: no matter how figurative and sexual Mr. West's objects may be, they remain abstract. The pieces can be worn on the street or carried like a partner in an enraptured solipsistic dance. They leave the wearer looking both protected and trapped."

His friend Reinhard Priessnitz called these "Passstücke", which was rendered into English as "Fitting pieces"; but West came to prefer another translation, "Adaptives".

West was married to the Georgian artist Tamuna Sirbiladze, with whom he had two children.

1990

In the late 1990s, West turned to large-scale lacquered aluminum pieces, the first (and several after) inspired by the forms of Viennese sausages, as well as the shapes of the Adaptives.

With their monochrome colors and irregular patchwork surfaces, these works were also meant for sitting and lying.

It doesn't matter what the art looks like but how it's used.

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The Baltimore Museum of Art with help from former Senior Curator of Contemporary Art, Darsie Alexander, hosted the very first "comprehensive survey" to ever been done in the U.S. of Franz West's artwork which contained his latest artwork designed specifically for the Baltimore Museum of Art, The Igo and the Id. – which "consists of two configurations of rumpled, ribbon-like loops rising some 20 feet high. One is bright pink, the other neatly painted in blocks of green, yellow, blue and orange. Both have round stools projecting from the lower ends of the loops."

1997

The non-profit Franz West Archive was established by West, Eva Badura-Triska and others in 1997.

2001

Previously, David Zwirner had represented West in the US until 2001.

2009

For the season 2009/2010 in the Vienna State Opera Franz West designed a large scale picture (176 sqm) as part of the exhibition series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress.

Throughout his career, West engaged in collaborations with other artists, such as conceptual Artist Bernhard Cella, conceptual artist Douglas Gordon, musician Fred Jellinek, furniture maker Mathis Esterhazy, and the artist Tamuna Sirbiladze (West's widow).

2011

At Frieze Art Fair in 2011, West curated the Gagosian Gallery's booth.

A portrait of West made by Rudolf Stingel sold for a price of more than $500,000.

West's estate continues to be represented by Gagosian Gallery.

2012

For another exhibition in 2012, West collaborated with fellow artist Anselm Reyle on a series of furniture sculptures.

West was represented by Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna, and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, until his death in 2012.

In 2012, just days before he died, West signed paperwork authorising the formation of the Franz West Private Foundation which also operated the Franz West Werknutzungs GmbH; after a five-year battle over the artist's estate, however, the Regional Court for Civil Law of Vienna concluded in 2017 that the foundation was created without a proper contract.

The archive had previously sued the private foundation, as well as Gagosian Gallery and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, for selling the artist's furniture and photographs, claiming it owns the sole license for those works.

2016

In 2016, the archive sought to merge with the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok).