Catalog of an exhibition held at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sept. 26, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013

Essays
Dark Romanticism : an approach / Felix Krämer
Uncanny images : the "night sides" of the visual arts around 1800 / Johannes Grave
Nightmare-anxiety-apocalypse : the uncanny and catastrophic in the art of Modernism / Hubertus Kohle
catalogue
Goya and the dark beauty / Manuela B. Mena Marqués
Moments of the sublime : Fuseli and aspects of dark Romanticism in British art / Franziska Lentzsch
Satan's heirs : the legacy of irrationality in French Romanticism / Nerina Santorius
What you have seen in the darkness . : dark Romanticism in German painting before 1850 / Mareike Hennig
The decadence and demonism of the self : French and Belgian symbolism / Dorothee Gerkens
"Sapere aude" : Dark Romantic symbolism in an enlightened time / Claudia Wagner
The omnipotence of the dream : Romanticism and Surrealism / Ingo Borges
essays
"The light was removed" : on dark Romantic literature / Roland Borgards
The sound of painting : dark Romanticism in opera / Alexander Meier-Dörzenbach
Living images : dark Romanticism in cinema / Claudia Dillmann

From its very inception in the late eighteenth century, Romanticism's celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930, the famous literary theorist Mario Praz named this strain in literature "Dark Romanticism," but its equivalent in art has never been thoroughly assessed in art history. This volume is the first to examine a current that runs from Goya's war etchings through Symbolism and up to Surrealism, presenting Romanticism as an intellectual position that was embraced throughout Europe and that endured into the twentieth century