Eli Ilan (אלי אילן), 1928-1982 was an Israeli sculptor.
Abstract organic pod shape. in either steel or iron mounted on a wooden plinth.
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 prehistoric 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.
Education
1955 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, pre-historic archaeology and physical anthropology
1956 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada, sculpture under Thomas Bowie
1959 Training College, Ottawa, criminal identification techniques
1969 Art Festival, Painting & Sculpture in Israel. Ganei Hataarucha, Tel Aviv
Artists: Chana Orloff, Eli Ilan, Zvi Aldouby, Jacob El Hanani, Ludwig Blum, Aharon Bezalel, Koki Doktori...
Category
1960s Abstract Mohamed Hassan Sculptures
