Li Osborne

Li Osborne
Born	Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf (1883-01-04)January 4, 1883 Mainz
Died	August 19, 1968(1968-08-19) (aged 85) Monte Brè/Locarno
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 nee Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf, was a German portrait and figure photographer who became the British sculptor in bronze and terracotta Louise Hutchinson.

Biography

Osborne was educated in Freiburg, Geneva and London and in 1920 had her first photo exhibition in Copenhagen. Between 1922 and 1924 she operated a portrait studio in Baden-Baden and in 1925 she located the studio to Giselastraße 1, in Munich. In this time she also made theater-photography. In 1925 Osborne became a member of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Lichtbildner, Society of German Photographers. Her portrait subjects included Jean Arp, Albert Schweitzer and a production of King Lear in a style tinged with expressionism. In 1934 Osborne sold her studio and emigrated to Switzerland.

• During World War II, in Zurich, she began to teach herself sculpture. Although largely self-taught as a sculptor, she received advice from many internationally known artists, while living in Switzerland.

In Osborne 1945 she moved to East Bergholt in England and dedicated her time to sculpture. In 1953 and 1956 works by her were shown at the Beaux-Arts Gallery, London. In 1953 her work was included in the British section of the Unknown Political Prisoner Competition.

The sculptor Louise Frederike Susanna Hutchinson-Wolf (1883-1968) and her husband William Doge (Bill) Hutchinson ( (1883-04-26)April 26, 1883 -1966) signed the register of Eranos conferences in 1935, 1945, 1946, 1949, 1952 and 1953.