Kosso Eloul
b. 22 January 1920 in Murom in the former Soviet Union, d. 8 November 1995 in Toronto (CDN); Israeli-Canadian sculptor
1924 | Emigration to Tel Aviv in Mandatory Palestine |
from 1938 | Trained as a sculptor at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem |
1943 | Trained under Frank Lloyd Wright at the Art Institute of Chicago |
from 1943 | Trained under László Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago School of Design |
1943-1944 | Moved to Philadelphia, served in the American Navy |
1948 | Studio in Ramat Gan; curator of the "New Horizons" artists' circle |
1951 | First solo exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum of Art |
1958 | Represented Israel at the Venice Biennale |
1961 | Forma Viva Sculpture Symposium in Yugoslavia |
1962 | Sculpture symposium in the Negev in Israel |
1963 | Participation in the Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1963 (Berlin Wall Symposium Berlin) with Herbert Baumann, Erich Reischke and Yasuo Mizui, where Eloul created a stone sculpture in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. |
1964 | Toronto, Canada |
1965-1966 | UCLA Long Beach |
1965 | Organized a sculpture symposium with participants including the Dutch sculptors Joop Beljon and Lucien den Arend |
Sculptures by Kosso Eloul can be found in public places in many towns and cities in Canada.
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