Emil Lüthy – Artist and Model in Studio, Original Drawing

Emil Lüthy and studied painting with Hermann Meyer as well as abroad, including in Italy, Vienna and Paris. Influenced by his cousin and close friend, the Swiss-American pschiastrist Emil Oberholzer, Lüthy became intrigued by psychoanalysis and was one the first members of the Swiss Psycho-Analytical Society. He was psychoanalysed by Freud in 1923 and also collaborated with Swiss psychologist Hermann Rorschach, inventor of the Rorschach test. Luthy studied medicine in the mid-1920s, but later turned exclusively to painting.