Li Osborne

Li Osborne (née Luisa Friedericke Susanna Wolf; 4 January 1883 – 19 August 1968), also known as Louise Hutchinson, was a German-born, later British, portrait and figure photographer and sculptor in bronze and terracotta.

Biography Osborne was born in Mayence, later Mainz, and was educated in Freiburg, Geneva and London. Her mother was Bavarian and her father was a naturalised British subject. 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. Her sculptures were based on figuration and expressiveness and she often left traces of her working of the material in the finished piece, in contrast to the smooth abstract work of others. In 1953 and 1956 works by her were shown at the Beaux-Arts Gallery, London.