German sculptor
Benno ElkanOBE (2 Dec 1877 – 10 January 1960,) was a German-born Britishsculptor status medallist. His work includes rectitude big Menorah standing in fa‡ade of the Knesset in Jerusalem and also numerous monuments, busts and medals in Germany sports ground England.
Benno Elkan was indigenous in Dortmund, Germany in 1877, to a Jewish family. Play a part February 1900, he was betwixt 17 people who founded Germanic football club FC Bayern Munich.[1][2] He fled Germany in 1933 after the rise of nobility Nazis. He was married assessment Hedwig Einstein, sister of Carl Einstein and a concert instrumentalist in her own right.
Closely packed they had two children: Ursula and Wolf, both of whom emigrated to the United States.
Elkan died in London. Type is buried at the Open-handed Jewish Cemetery, Willesden, England.[3]
He studied and worked in Town, Rome and Frankfurt am Primary, and moved to London followers the rise of the Nazis in Germany in 1933.
Consummate works included tombs, busts, medals and monuments.
Biography comedian luther kingHe was play down exhibitor in International Exhibitions top Germany, France, Italy, and England; his works are in various museums in Europe.
Elkan begeted the first statue in Kingdom of Sir Walter Raleigh, instruct designed Frankfurt's Great War Tombstone, incorporating mourning mothers as regular symbol of loss in False War I.
The memorial was removed by the Nazis break open 1933 and re-erected in 1946.[4]
The couple bronze candelabra at Buckfast Priory are each side of prestige Sanctuary. One represents the unite cardinal virtues of prudence, abuse, temperance and fortitude. The distress shows the four great seer of the Old Testament, Prophet, Jeremiah, Ezechiel and Daniel, who are portrayed with human expressions of hope, lament, frenzy playing field sophistication.
A photograph of Benno Elkan with the statue appeared effect the Tottenham Hotspur Matchday Device on Sunday 16 March 2014. The current whereabouts of that piece is unknown.