Question

An artist from this city painted a self-portrait that shows him with short cropped hair laughing maniacally. An artist in this city depicted death in a monk’s robe being embraced by a gangly maiden in red. One artist painted a nude woman sticking out her buttocks toward the viewer in Goldfish to mock detractors after a university in this city rejected several “Faculty Paintings.” (15[1])An artist in this city painted many portraits of his lover Wally Neuzil. Joseph Maria (*) Olbrich designed a building in this city topped with a sphere made of golden foliage, whose walls include a depiction of Typhon and the Gorgons in the Beethoven Frieze. (10[1])The Belvedere in this city owns paintings such as The Kiss (10[1])completed during an artist’s “golden phase.” For 10 points, Gustav Klimt was part of what city’s namesake “Secession”? ■END■

ANSWER: Vienna [or Wien] (the unnamed artists are Richard Gerstl and Egon Schiele.)
<Jeremy Tsai, Visual Fine Arts>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joy AnHarvardTufts6315
Jason HongBrownBoston College10710
Eli IssoksonBrandeisMIT11810

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2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard)10/21/2023Y3100%33%0%96.00
2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite)10/21/2023Y6100%83%0%69.83