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 fictional
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.