Helene Marie Fesenmaier (1937 - 2013)

Biography

Helene Marie Fesenmaier (August 31, 1937 – June 21, 2013) was an American painter in acrylic, oil and pastel and sculptor. She initially disliked art when she was young but graduated from Smith College and Yale School of Art. Fesenamier was part of a group who established the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture in 1964. She spent time painting in the Netherlands and visited archaeological sites in Greece, Peru and Yucatán before taking up sculpting in Venezuela when she could not obtain suitable life models to paint and draw on. In 1970, Fesenmaier moved from Venezuela to London, as she combined painting and sculpting. She exhibited her works in major cities and art museums across the globe, and was posthumously inducted into the ISD 88 Hall of Fame in 2017.