Instead, Stingel chose that spot for a painting of his friend Franz West, the Austrian artist who died last year.

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Franz Beckenbauer's West German machine won the 1972 Euro and 1974 World Cup, then lost the 1976 Euro in a penalty-kick shootout.

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The Franz Josef glacier on the west side of the Southern Alps of New Zealand advanced sharply during the period of the Little Ice Age, actually invading a rain forest at its maximum extent in the early 1700s.

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