His work, based on the centuries-old tradition of wood carving and German Gothic art, was banned as “degenerate ... drawings and prints. “Donnerwetter!” The son of a physician in the ...

While in art and literature, the Gothic allowed Horace Walpole, Bram Stoker and Dickens to capture the terror, weirdness and social ills that plagued Victorian Britain. Dan Cruickshank and the ...