Cornelia (Brendel) Foss (born 1931) is an American artist and teacher.
She immigrated to St. Louis, Missouri with her mother in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution.
[3] Foss teaches painting at the Art Students League of New York.
They had two children, Christopher Brendel Foss, who became a documentary filmmaker and corporate consultant on social and environmental engagement/sustainability communications, and Eliza Foss Topol, an actress.
During this time, Foss moved with her children to Toronto to be closer to her lover, pianist Glenn Gould.