But his body of work completed
over many decades, the artist
died in 1993 at the age of 71, includes many figurative, landscape and still lives that served as a
foundation for his large scale abstractions.
[19] 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.