Background
Benno Elkan was born in Dortmund, Germany.
Benno Elkan was born in Dortmund, Germany.
Gymnasium, Dortmund
Château du Rosey, Rolle, nr Lausanne
Royal Academy, Munich and Karlsruhe i/B as painter
Self-trained as sculptor.
He fled Germany in 1933 after the rise of the Nazis. Together they had two children: Ursula and Wolf, both of whom emigrated to the United States. Elkan died in London and is buried in Willesden, England.
Elkan created the first statue in Britain of Sir Walter Raleigh, and designed Frankfurt’s Great War Memorial, incorporating mourning mothers as a symbol of loss in World War I. The memorial was removed by the Nazis in 1933 and re-erected in 1946.
