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One artist from this present-day country included formalist photographs of objects like shoe irons and blast furnaces in his book The World is Beautiful. A very large photograph from this present-day country depicting a river flowing between two green fields under an overcast sky sold at Christie's for $4.3 million in 2011. A performance artist in this country planted 7000 oaks and locked himself in a room with a coyote. This home of Andreas Gursky and (*) Joseph Beuys has a Norman Foster-designed glass dome on its parliament building. Albert Renger-Patzsch and George Grosz belonged to this country's New Objectivity movement. Architects from this country designed the White City of Tel Aviv in the style of a school in this country founded by Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus. For 10 points, name this country home to the Reichstag.
One artist from this present-day country included formalist photographs of objects like shoe irons and blast furnaces in his book The World is Beautiful.
Federal Republic of Germany [or Bundesrepublik Deustchland]