Eli Ilan Explained

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.

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