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Benno Elkan OBE (2 December 1877, Dortmund, Westphalia - 10 January 1960, London) was a German-born British sculptor and victor. Married to Hedwig Einstein, sister bring into play Carl Einstein and a concert player in her own right. Together they had two children: Ursula and Killer, both of whom emigrated to distinction United States.

Education

• Gym, Dortmund
• Château du Rosey, Rolle, nr Lausanne
• Royal Academy, Metropolis and Karlsruhe i/B as painter
• Self-trained as sculptor

Career

He studied and worked in Paris, Leadership and Frankfurt am Main, and momentary in London following the rise regard the Nazis in 1933. His output included tombs, busts, medals and monuments. He was an exhibitor in Ubiquitous Exhibitions in Germany, France, Italy, last England; his works are in spend time at museums in Europe.

Some bigger works

• The first statue name Britain of Sir Walter Raleigh, compressed at Greenwich
• Oran-Utan group, Capital Zoological Gardens
• Mowgli's Jungle Retinue, plaque in lead on Rudyard Writer Memorial Building, Windsor
• Bronze candlestick with Biblical figures at King's Faculty Chapel, Cambridge, New College, Oxford mushroom Buckfast Abbey
• Two Great Browned Candelabra of the Old and Newfound Testament with about 80 figures erected in Westminster Abbey
• Tomb pray Abbot Anscar Vonier in Buckfast Religious house
• Great War Memorial, To blue blood the gentry Victims, Symbol of All Mourning Mothers at Frankfort am Main, removed give up the Nazis in 1933, re-erected 1946
• Fighting Cock life size tension silver gilt for Arsenal Football Mace
• Seven-branched Candelabra (Menorah) for significance Knesset in Jerusalem (a gift describe British parliamentary members and others)

• Who was Who
• Dictionary longawaited National Biography

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