Bettina Brendel papers
name: label: Creator
content: Brendel, Bettina
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Women artists
label: Topic
content: Women painters
label: Topic
content: Women educators
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Bettina Brendel donated her papers to the Archives of American Art in installments from 1981 to 2003.
creator: label: Creator
content: Brendel, Bettina
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content: Bettina Brendel papers
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of painter Bettina Brendel measure 0.7 linear feet and date from 1937 to 2000. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, a writing, photographs, printed material, and a mixed media scrapbook.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: German-born Los Angeles painter and educator Bettina Brendel studied at Kunstschule Schmilimsky, Hamburg, and Landeshochschule Für Bildende Künste, Hamburg with Erich Hartmann in the 1940s before coming to the United States in 1951. She continued her studies at the University of Southern California from 1955-1958, and taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1958-1961.

Brendel's work can be found in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Art, Pasadena Art Museum, and Long Beach Museum of Art amongst others.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 0.7 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1937-2000
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.brenbett
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Scrapbooks
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Due to the small size of this collection the papers are arranged as one series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Jayna Josefson in 2022 with support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Scrapbooks
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of painter and educator Bettina Brendel measure 0.7 linear feet and date from 1937 to 2000. Found are biographical materials, correspondence, a writing, photographs, printed material, and a mixed media scrapbook.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also found in the Archives of American Art is an oral history interview of Bettina Brendel conducted August 23, 2001, by Paul Karlstrom, for the Archives of American Art, in Brendel's home/studio.