Li Osborne

Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf
Born	(1883-01-04)January 4, 1883 Mainz
Died	August 19, 1968(1968-08-19) (aged 85) Monte Brè/Locarno
Education	in Freiburg, Geneva and London.
Spouses	1907 marriage with Leo Karl Benecke Prussian. Officer (divorce in 1913 after death of the daughter, who died of typhus at the age of four.) 1920 to 1929 marriage with the Czech psychiatrist Walter Carl Henry Osborne (1879) In 1930 she became the second wife of William Doge Hutchinson
Parents	was a naturalized British subject (father) was Bavarian (mother)

Li Osborne was a german portrait and figure photographer who became the british sculptor in bronze and terracotta Louise Hutchinson.

Biography

• She was born as Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf.
• 1920 first photo exhibition in Copenhagen.
• 1922-1924 leading a portrait studio in Baden-Baden.
• In 1925 she located her studio at the Giselastraße 1, in Munich. In this time she also made theater-photography.
• In 1925 she became member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner(Society of German Photographers).
• Principally executes portraits (Jean Arp, Albert Schweitzer, King Lear) in a style tinged with expressionism.

• In 1934 she sold her studio and emigrated to Switzerland.
• During the second world war she began self-taught as a sculptor in Zurich.
• She was self-taught as a sculptor, although she received advice from many internationally known artists, while living in Switzerland.
• In 1945 she moved to East Bergholt and dedicated sculpturing.
• In 1953 and 1956 works of her where shown at the Beaux-Arts Gallery, London.