{"product_id":"elka-hartel","title":"Elka Härtel","description":"Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the  Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic.  She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who  escapes from imprisonment. Elke Härtel awakens  Rapunzel to new life, modelled in clay and then  cast in plaster and  bronze. The publication  documents the fascinating process of creation  with lavish illustrations. Elke Härtel draws on inner pictorial worlds as well  as on fairy tales, myths and religious concepts.  She takes her strong, usually female figures  from  the depths of dreams and from literary  references. Born in 1978, she studied at the  Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the  Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Her sculptures  and large - format drawings have already been  shown in the Lenbachhaus München and in the  Diocesan Museum in Freising, amongst other  places. Thanks to her numerous projects in the  public space she occupies an influential position in contemporary sculpture, as this evocative  pictorial volume impressively demonstrates .","brand":"Hirmer Verlag GmbH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42664471363620,"sku":"9783777429274","price":65.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0725\/9734\/0196\/files\/9783777429274.jpg?v=1777357504","url":"https:\/\/thamesandhudson.com.au\/products\/elka-hartel","provider":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}