A contemporary artist from this country created a series of grid paintings called  4900 Colors  and also made a series of blurred "photo-paintings".
An artist born in this country painted a woman glancing at a newspaper in a crystal ball in the left panel of his triptych  The Departure  and showed a man being hanged in a cramped tent in his 1919 painting  The Night . A contemporary artist from this country created a series of grid paintings called  4900 Colors  and also made a series of blurred "photo-paintings". A Swiss-born artist published the Pedagogical Sketchbook  while teaching at a design school in this country led by (*)  Walter Gropius. The creator of the  Street Scenes  cycle co-founded a proto-Expressionist movement in this country whose name translates as "the bridge". For 10 points, Max Beckmann and Ernst Kirchner were among the artists labeled "degenerate" by what country's Nazi regime?
An artist born in this country painted a woman glancing at a newspaper in a crystal ball in the left panel of his triptych  
Germany  [or  Weimar Republic ; or East  Germany ; or West  Germany ; or  German Democratic Republic ; or  GDR ; or  DDR ; or Federal Republic of  Germany ; or  FRG ; or  Bonn Republic ] [The contemporary artist is Gerhard Richter.]