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Self Portrait, 2015, Oil on canvas. 48 x 36 inches

Cornelia Foss was born in Berlin, Germany in 1931. Her first six years were spent in Rome, Italy. ​Next, she attended school in Berlin​ for two years, and then came with her family to America in 1939. She has lived primarily in America since then, and is a resident of New York City and Bridgehampton, Long Island.​ Her husband, Lukas Foss, the composer, died in 2009.​

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Foss studied at the Kann Institute in Los Angeles and at the University of Rome, Italy. Foss has taught at the National Academy of the Arts and at the Art Students League of New York. She continues at the latter. Her latest exhibit was a retrospective in 2015 at the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.

In 2009, Foss was elected a member of the National Academy of the Arts.  2013 marked the publication of her book, "Cornelia Foss: Ten Years of Paintings and Drawings, 2003-2013." In 2015, Skira-Rizzoli published "Cornelia Foss: A Retrospective." 

Foss had her first solo show at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, followed by solo shows at the James Goodman Gallery in Buffalo​;​​ t​he Berry-Hill Gallery, New York, NY, The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C.; Boston Universit

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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.

Early life and education

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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

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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 Museum of Art, Guild Hall of East Hampton, 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. She was elected as a member of the National Academy of the Arts in 2009.^[3