This author described meeting the painter Angelica Kaufmann and searching for an archetypical plant he dubbed the Urpflanze in a travelogue that opens with the phrase "Auch ich in Arkadien," or Et in Arcadia ego. That work, which this author wrote after "slipp[ing] away" from his duties as Privy Councillor in Weimar, was his Italian Journey. A Thomas Mann novel subtitled The (*) Beloved Returns describes the relationship between this author and C
This author described meeting the painter Angelica Kaufmann and searching for an archetypical plant he dubbed the Urpflanze in a travelogue that opens with the phrase "Auch ich in Arkadien," or Et in Arcadia ego. That work, which this author wrote after "slipp[ing] away" from his duties as Privy Councillor in Weimar, was his Italian Journey. A Thomas Mann novel subtitled The (*) Beloved Returns describes the relationship between this author and Charlotte Kestner, which this man himself fictionalized in a novel in which Lotte's marriage to Albert causes the title character to shoot himself. In another work by this man, the title character is visited by a poodle who turns out to be Mephistopheles. For 10 points, name this German author who wrote The Sorrows of Young Werther and the two-part play Faust.
This author described meeting the painter Angelica Kaufmann and searching for an archetypical plant he dubbed the Urpflanze in a travelogue that opens with the phrase "Auch ich in Arkadien," or Et in Arcadia ego.