Renate Druks

Renate Druks (2 January 1921 – 15 December 2007) was an American painter and filmmaker. She worked in Los Angeles, where she also practiced Thelema, the occult religious movement established by Aleister Crowley. She acted as a muse to other artists including Anaïs Nin, Marjorie Cameron and Kenneth Anger. Druks was born in Vienna on 2 January 1921 into a Jewish family and went on to study at the Vienna Art Academy fo…