Eli Ilan | |
Native Name: | אלי אילן |
Birth Date: | 1928 |
Birth Place: | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
Death Place: | Caesarea, Israel |
Nationality: | Israeli |
Known For: | Sculpture |
Notable Works: | Dolmenic Arch I (1981), Tel Aviv University |
Eli Ilan (Hebrew: אלי אילן; 1928 - 1982) was an Israeli sculptor.
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.