The first work of the Catalogue Raisonné of Ingeborg Lüscher is a little head, carved in soap by the teenager in 1949. Fifty-five years later, soap as artistic material takes the leading role in Lüscher’s installation „The Amber Room“.
Renate Petzinger 2006
IL001
Little Head, 1949
Köpfchen, 1949
Carved soap, hemp
3.7 x 4 x 4.5 cm
The Estate of Edith Löffler, Tegna
Provenance
The artist
Edith Löffler, Berlin
Exhibitions
Kunsthaus Zürich 1988
Catalogues
Wiesbaden 1993, p 82
Rovereto 2004, p 12 (ill)
Texts
Petzinger 2006, p 7