Anselm Kiefer - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

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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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	24	12.92	71%	50%	8%

Data


Brown	Berkeley A	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	North Carolina A	10	10	0	20
North Carolina B	Chicago C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers	Claremont Colleges	10	10	0	20
Columbia A	WUSTL A	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Ottawa	10	0	0	10
Georgia Tech	Michigan	0	0	0	0
Indiana	Stanford	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Illinois	10	10	0	20
Kentucky	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Maryland	NYU	10	10	0	20
Harvard	McGill	10	10	0	20
Minnesota A	Cornell A	10	10	0	20
Minnesota B	Truman State	10	10	0	20
Chicago B	Purdue	10	10	0	20
Chicago D	South Carolina	0	0	0	0
Northwestern	Toronto A	10	10	10	30
Arizona State	Toronto B	0	10	0	10
Berkeley B	Vanderbilt	10	0	0	10
Penn	Virginia	10	10	10	30
WUSTL B	Florida	0	0	0	0
Waterloo	Texas	0	10	0	10
Yale A	Iowa State	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Duke	0	0	0	0