Glenn Wessels

Wessels was born in Cape Town, Cape Colony.^[4] He emigrated to the United States with his family as a child.^[5] He attended the University of California, and he was trained by Hans Hofmann in Munich, Germany.^[6]

Wessels was a painter, etcher, lithographer and arts educator.^[7] He was a professor at the California College of the Arts, Washington State University, and the University of California, Berkeley.^[5] Wessels was an artistic mentor to notable American painter Thomas Kinkade.

Wessels died on July 23, 1982.^[5] His artwork is in the permanent collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco,^[7] the Oakland Museum of California,^[8] and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.^[9]