Glenn Wessels’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story
By Nathan Sanders
| Intro | South African painter |
| Is | Painter |
| From | South Africa |
| Type | Arts |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Death | 23 July 1982 |
Glenn Wessels (d. July 23, 1982) was a South African-born American painter, etcher, lithographer and arts educator. He was a professor at the California College of the Arts, Washington State University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Life
Wessels was born in Cape Town, South Africa. He emigrated to the United States with his family as a child. He attended the University of California, and he was trained by Hans Hofmann in Munich, Germany.
Wessels was a painter, etcher, lithographer and arts educator. He was a professor at the California College of the Arts, Washington State University, and the University of California, Berkeley.
Wessels died on July 23, 1982. His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum of California, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
