Eli Ilan

Eli Ilan (Hebrew: אלי אילן; 1928 – 1982) was an Israeli sculptor.

Eli Ilan
אלי אילן
Born	1928 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	January 1, 1982(1982-01-01) (aged 54) Caesarea, Israel
Nationality	Israeli
Education	University of British Columbia Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ontario College of Art & Design
Known for	Sculpture
Notable work	Dolmenic Arch I (1981), Tel Aviv University

'Dolmenic Arch I' (1981), Tel Aviv University

Ilan was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He enrolled in a premedical curriculum at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and emigrated to Israel in 1948. He then studied pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1956, he returned to Canada to study sculpture at the Ontario College of Art & Design. He lived in Kibbutz Sasa from 1959 to 1963. He died in 1982 in Caesarea, Israel.

Sources

• Dagon, Yoav, Eli Ilan 1928-1982, Retrospective, Herzliya, Israel, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, 1992.
• Kohansky, Mendel, Sculptures of Eli Ilan, London, Jacques O'Hana Gallery, 1974.
• Renee Darom Galerie D'art, Eli Ilan Sculpture, Tel Aviv, Renee Darom Galerie D'art, 1974

External links

Media related to Eli Ilan at Wikimedia Commons