The sculptural concept of Elisabeth Wagner spans the wide range from abstracted and objectless forms and objects such as the "Klunkers" or "glass beads" to portrait busts, figures or horses inspired by a real world or pictorial world. In recent years, portrait busts have been created in which the sculptor borrows portraits known to art history from works by Old Masters (by Petrus Christus, Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Jean Fouquet, Francisco de Goya, Rembrandt and Velázquez). Removed from two-dimensionality, the portraits, modeled in plaster and painted, now appear in spatial plastic dimension. They are subject to a considerable process of transformation, both in format and in the treatment of materials and colors. Elisabeth Wagner thus ignores her models without abandoning their identity. This approach corresponds to the parallel created sculptural objects and forms.