Carmen Wenzel

Carmen Wenzel is a Mexican sculptor and painter, from Puebla. She is known for her monumental public sculptures made from metal. Wenzel is also known by the married name Carmen López Blumenkron de Wenzel.

Life and career

Carmen Wenzel was born in 1931, in Puebla, Mexico. She was married to American Thomas William Adams, which ended in divorce.
Wenzel began her art studies at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla in San Andrés Cholula, Mexico, under Martín Serrano; followed by study at the Sunset Center in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California with Robert Horne; and study at California State University, Fullerton in Fullerton, California.
Her first exhibition was in 1972 at the Auditorio de la Reforma in Puebla, Mexico. One of her most notable works is the sculpture , located at the campus of Universidad de las Américas Puebla.