Nearby, a lean, angular Schmidt-Rottluff nude from 1914 awkwardly folds herself into a schematic landscape, as if aspiring to become one of the Demoiselles d'Avignon, while a jagged Kirchner streetscape, 1912-14, offers yet another creative transformation of Cubist notions.

WSJ: Before Darkness Fell | German Expressionism 1900-1930 | Neue Galerie | By Karen Wilkin