In thirty years, Austrian artist Franz West (Vienna, Austria, 1947 – 2012) built up a considerable body of work. Even before attending art school, his artistic experiments took the form of photographs, graphics, monochrome painted matter paintings and reliefs in papier-mâché. In the mid-1970s, he began training at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. West is considered one of the most important contemporary Austrian artists, who has distinguished himself primarily through a mixture of sculpture, installations, land art, performance and graphic art.
