Sylvia Fein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sylvia Fein

Date of Birth: 20-Nov-1919

Place of Birth: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Sylvia Fein

  • Sylvia Fein (Scheuber) (born November 20, 1919) is an American surrealist painter and author.
  • Inspired by the quattrocento, Fein paints in egg tempera, which she makes herself.
  • She studied painting at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she became part of a group of magical realist painters, including Gertrude Abercrombie, Marshall Glasier, John Wilde, Dudley Huppler, and Karl Priebe.
  • A newspaper described her as "Wisconsin’s Foremost Woman Painter." Beginning in the 1940s, Fein lived for a time in Mexico, then in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, eventually settling in the town of Martinez.
  • Her 100th birthday was marked with an exhibition at her alma mater, The University of California at Berkeley.

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