KUNZELSAU.- The fascinations of the forest! Hardly another subject in art history can match the forest for expressive potential and a concomitant multiplicity of meanings. As a favourite setting for fairy tales, forests formed an essential projection screen during childhood. The mostly young heroes and heroines went astray there, encountered unusual creatures, were transformed, enchanted, or gobbled up, only to prevail in the end. The phantasmagorical ideas of Romantic painters, writers, and composers still move us in the twenty-first century and have become embedded in our feeling and thinking. Doesn’t a stroll in the woods still hold the promise of time to think and recuperate from humdrum life? In the course of the nineteenth century, Romantic ideas spread so rapidly and widely that something known as the “scientific forest aesthetic” emerged. Woods developed from “untamed wilderness” to sites for an enjoyment of nature and finally into “suburban recreation areas” or even cit