The first work of the Catalogue Raisonné Ingeborg Lüscher is a little head, carved in soap by the teenager in 1949. Fifty-five years later, soap as an artistic material takes the leading roll in Lüscher’s installation „The Amber Room“.

 

Renate Petzinger 2006

CR 1

 

Little Head, 1949

Köpfchen, 1949

 

 

Carved soap, hemp

3.7 x 4 x 4.5 cm

The Estate of Edith Löffler

 

Provenance

The artist

Edith Löffler, Locarno

 

Exhibitions

Kunsthaus Zürich 1988

 

Catalogues

Wiesbaden 1993, p 82

Rovereto 2004, p 12 (ill)

 

Texts

Petzinger 2006, p 7

 

Photography

Renate Petzinger