Actor
Renate Druks
January 2, 1921 · Vienna, Austria
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 for Women. In 1938, she and her American husband fled Austria for the United States with their son, Peter. She studied further at the Art Students League, spent several years in Mexico, and eventually settled in Los Angeles. She threw lavish parties at her Malibu home, one of which becamse the inspiration for Anger's 1954 film, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome.
Often works with
Curtis Harrington
3 titles together
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Usher, The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Samson De Brier
2 titles together
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Marjorie Cameron
2 titles together
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Anaïs Nin
2 titles together
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
Kenneth Anger
2 titles together
The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, The Films of Kenneth Anger: Volume One
