This artist painted wheat fields and flowers over blown-up photos from his Barjac studio for his Morgenthau Plan series. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this artist whose textured Neo-Expressionist work uses materials like straw to examine German collective memory. Paul Celan’s Todesfuge inspired his paintings of Margarete.
ANSWER: Anselm Kiefer
[10e] With a sculpture titled for this figure, Kiefer became the first artist since Georges Braque to have a permanent work in the Louvre. This mythical woman is curled up along a gold stream in a painting by Gustav Klimt.
ANSWER: Danaë
[10h] In the ’70s, Kiefer obsessively depicted the floorboards of one of these places in paintings like Parsifal I. A stolen Biedermeier painting by Carl Spitzweg of a poet in one of these places was a favorite of Adolf Hitler.
ANSWER: attics [accept garrets; accept loft] (The Spitzweg painting is titled The Poor Poet.)
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