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Li Osborne
Born
Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf

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

Biography

  • 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.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • In 1953 and 1956 works of her were shown at the Beaux-Arts Gallery, London.[2]
  • In 1953 her work was included in the British section of the Unknown Political Prisoner Competition.[2]

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.[3]

References

  1. ^ Sir Rabindranath Tagore, by Li Osborne, [1][2]
  2. ^ a b c Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
  3. ^ Riccardo Bernardini, Jung a Eranos. Il progetto della psicologia complessa: Il progetto della , [3], Edited by Alan Windsor, British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century, [4]