Round 9: Tossup 19

A park in this country features a 17-meter-tall Monolith depicting 121 interlocking nude bodies in a column, as well as the absurd bronze sculpture Man Attacked by Babies. (-5[1])Two artists from this country competed to decorate a university’s assembly hall in the Aula dispute, which ended (10[1])with the hall hosting the paintings Alma Mater and The Sun. An artist from this country painted a dark self-portrait in which his face is illuminated by a lit cigarette. (10[1])An affair with Millie Thaulow led that artist from this country to paint a man in black sulking in the corner as a red-haired woman in a white gown (10[2])kneels and clutches (-5[1])her head. That artist of the painting Ashes from this country also painted women with long, red hair in Love and Pain and The Sick Child. (10[1])For 10 points, name this home country of the painter of the Frieze of Life, Edvard (10[2]-5[1])Munch (10[1])■END■ (10[4])

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