Bernard Brenner was born in Philadelphia in 1927. Bernard Brenner died in Pennsylvania in 2004.

Most of Bernard Brenner's sculpture is in cast bronze or forged steel, and was created from the 1950s to the 1990s. His pieces are abstract and expressionistic. 

He completed more than two dozen public commissions, exhibited in over a hundred group shows and had more than 20 one-man shows. Brenner collaborated

with other artists, including long working relationships with J. Fuhrman and Greg Leavitt.