BETTINA BRENDEL was born in Germany. She received her Abiturium and her art Education in Hamburg and Munich. She came to the United States in 1951. She attended the University of Southern California to study printmaking and taught UCLA extension classes on Modern Art .

Bettina Brendel was one of the pioneer abstractionist artists on the West Coast, a philosophy that led her to the study of the history and theories of Modern Physics. For this purpose she attended "The New School for Social Research" in New York. The artist lived in New York City from 1966-72, and exhibited her work there.

She has had many One-Woman. exhibitions and her work has been included in national and international group exhibitions, as well as in private and public art collections. Bettina Brendel has presented her work at international "Art and Science" conferences in Paris, Lisbon, Portugal, and Loughborough, England. She had a retrospective solo-show at the Long Beach Museum of Art in Long Beach, Calif. in 1998 and a solo computer art show in Giesssen, Germany in 1999.