Frau Holle – “And it’s snowing” (ARS NATURA 2007)

Frau Holle stands a little higher and a bit goblin-like at a hiking trail crossing with a rest area. It is one of the sculptures of the ARS NATURA Foundation and has found a fairytale place here in the Grimm homeland.

We only saw some installations, more by accident we ended up on the way. But it was worth seeing, it reinforces talking when you're on the move, when you're talking, and when you're thinking it's the same. It was definitely the plan, so it worked! ;-)

ARS-Natura artwork by Jürgen Raiber, Leipzig/Mölbis
with the title "...and it's snowing"

Frau Holle - a fairy tale character of the kind woman who has become goblin-like here. A standing figure that seems to express mainly through face and restrained body movements: diligence is rewarded, laziness is punished. Her elevated position suggests the celestial realm she operates in, but her hat also makes her whimsical and human. This figure is the counterpart to the artist's figures installed in the Hessisch Lichtenau area under the title "Visit to Mrs. H.".