July 26 - Franz West, 65, Austrian artist.

The first exhibition will be works by Franz West, an Austrian artist.

Franz West, an Austrian artist who designed the chairs, said he chose the fabrics "because they are some kind of wild."

In the case of Franz West and Polly Apfelbaum you have works that are charmingly whimsical but irrelevant to the show's focus.

LEAD: Like all contemporary Austrian artists, it seems, Franz West is messy.

Ms. Hessel also just purchased two sculptures by Franz West for the museum.

Franz West, 65, Austrian artist, liver disease.

Finally, many of the exhibition's themes come together in the work of Franz West, Vienna's most frequently exported contemporary artist.

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

Franz West is a 44-year-old Viennese artist whose raw, offbeat work invariably offers sculptural and intellectual surprise.