Benno Elkan OBE
Born 2 December 1877
Died 10 January 1960
Active: 1937 - 1953
Country of birth: Germany
Country of death: Great Britain
Sculptor, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator of books
Naturalised in 1946
Wealth at death: £12,580 3s. 3d.
Probate date: 27 June 1960
Works
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Orang-utan
1938
Locations
Address 26 Exeter Road London | View on map
1943
p. 75
Address 3 Warwick Avenue London | View on map
1937 - 1943
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Second Annual Exhibition, 1943
'Mr M. L. -- 100 Years Old'
Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938
Sources
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
Clough Williams-Ellis, ‘Elkan, Benno (1877–1960)’, rev. Robert Burstow, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/32994, accessed 22 Jan 2009]
Palace of Arts
Empire Exhibition
Scotland
1938
The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938
The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, Catalogue, 1943
1943
p. 40
Citing this record
'Benno Elkan OBE', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib6_1220542698, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
