Given a choice between an exhibit of GermanExpressionist paintings and a hike up some soul-stirring hill, I'll take the thick brush strokes and green faces every time.
Benson, curator of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for GermanExpressionist Studies at the museum, has chosen 150 works that document the zigs and zags of Richter's life as he tried various disciplines and one -ism after another.
Just as successful was one of the Egon Schiele gouaches that sold to benefit Ronald Lauder's jewel-like little Neue Galerie in New York, and a roughly hewn head in wood carved in 1916-1917 by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, a GermanExpressionist sculptor.