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Cornelia Foss
American painter (born 1931)
Cornelia (Brendel) Foss (born 1931) is an American artist and teacher. Her work is in the permanent collections of The National Portrait Gallery, The Houston Museum of Art, The Guild Hall Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, The Wichita Art Museum, The Museum of Oklahoma, The Burchfield Penney Art Center, The National Museum of Women in the Arts and The Huntington Museum.
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Early life and education
Cornelia Brendel was born in Berlin, Germany to art historian and archeologist parents, Otto Brendel and Maria Weigert Brendel. She immigrated to St. Louis, Missouri with her mother in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution.[1] Her father had preceded them to St.
Louis. She studied literature at Indiana University and art history at the Sapienza University of Rome.[2]
Career
Foss, a painter, maintains studios in New York, NY and Bridgehampton, NY.
Her work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, The Houston Museu