Kosso Eloul

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Eternal flame in Yad Vashem by Kosso Eloul

Kosso Eloul (born January 22, 1920 in Murom in what was then the Soviet Union ; † November 8, 1995 in Toronto , Canada ) was an Israeli-Canadian sculptor. Eloul made the Eternal Flame in Yad Vashem in the shape of a broken bronze chalice.

life and work

The von Eloul family emigrated in 1924 to the Mandate Territory of Palestine in Tel Aviv . From 1938 Eloul was trained as a sculptor at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem and in 1943 he went to the USA , where he first worked with Frank Lloyd Wright at the Art Institute of Chicago and from 1943 with László Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago School of design was. In the same year he moved to Philadelphia and served in the American Navy from 1943 to 1944. After the Second World War he returned to Palestine and participated in the Palestine War in 1948 .

Eloul moved to Ramat Gan in 1948 , where he had a studio and he became the curator of the New Horizons artist group . In 1951 he had his first solo exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and in 1958 he represented Israel at the Venice Biennale . Eloul took part in various sculpture symposiums, including the Forma Viva sculpture symposium in Yugoslavia in 1961 and in the Negev desert in Israel in 1962 . In 1963 he took part in Berlin with Herbert Baumann , Erich Reischke and Yasuo Mizui at the so-called Wall Symposium Berlin , the ( Symposium of European Sculptors 1961–1963 by Karl Prantl ), where Eloul created a stone sculpture in Berlin-Tiergarten .

In 1964, Eloul left Israel for Toronto , Canada . From 1965 to 1966 he was at California State University, Long Beach . In 1965 he organized a sculpture symposium at which u. a. the Dutch sculptors Joop Beljon and Lucien den Arend took part. Kosso Eloul has sculpted numerous cities in Canada in public spaces. His metal sculptures represent abstract art and are minimalist .

Works (selection)

  • 1950 Abstract , Museum of Art Ein Harod
  • 1960 Eternal Flame , Yad Vashem in Jerusalem
  • 1963 Untitled , Berlin Wall Symposium in Berlin
  • 1964 Genesis , Storm King Art Center
  • 1965 Hardfact , California State University, Long Beach
  • 1968 Dual System , Hebrew Union College Los Angeles
  • 1970 Double You , Al Green Sculpture Park , Toronto
  • 1972 Alat , Al Green Sculpture Park
  • 1973 Time in Kingston
  • 1977 Canadac , Irving Zucker Sculpture Garden from the Hamilton Art Gallery in Hamilton
  • 1978 sculpture in Mexico City
  • 1979 Toron in Quebec
  • 1981 Solstice in Scarborough, Ontario
  • 1983 Passages in Guelph
  • 1984 Time Capsule in Toronto
  • 1994 Sculpture at the Canadian Embassy in Beijing

Photo gallery

  • Abstract (1950)

  • Untitled (1963), Berlin

  • Never been separated from , Petach Tikva Museum of Art

  • Canadac in Hamilton

  • Solstice in Scarborough, Ontario

  • Shlosha (1974) in Montreal

  • Parliament of Trees, Berlin

Web links

Commons : Kosso Eloul  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kosso Eloul ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Overlijdensbericht The New York Times: Kosso Eloul, 75, Sculptor of Flame (November 11, 1995)
personal data
SURNAME Eloul, Kosso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli-Canadian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Murom , Soviet Union
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1995
Place of death Toronto , Canada