Kosso eloul biography sample

  • Born in Mourom, Russia, Kosso Eloul was raised in Israel, and educated in Tel Aviv and in the U.S.A.
  • Kosso Eloul (1920 - 1995) was active/lived in New York, Ontario / Israel, Canada.
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     Eternal Flame 1974
    Aluminum sculpture
    13 x 18 x 14 inches

    Biography

    Born in Mourom, Russia, Kosso Eloul was raised in Israel, and educated in Tel Aviv and in the U.S.A. which included study at the Art Institute of Chicago (1939-43). A sculptor, originally traditional, who has become known for minimalist rectangular box-shaped pieces made from stainless steel which bring to mind the Cubi series of American sculptor David Smith (1906-1965).

    Kosso Eloul came to Canada in the summer of 1964 at the invitation of the International Sculpture Symposium in Montreal, then went on to Toronto where he settled. Describing his work in the 1971 summer issue of Artscanada Theodore Heinrich noted, “His well-established style normally expresses itself in two basic patterns which are capable of a wide range of thematic variations. In the first of these a rectangular solid is sliced and one of the resulting components shifted. In the other a pair of elements of simi­lar shape but unequal

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    Kosso Eloul 1964-1984. SIGNED.

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    1957/58 Karl Prantl works on the ‘Grenzstein’ (Boundary Stone) – a commission by the Province of Burgenland for the Hungarian border in Nickelsdorf – in the idyllic quarry of St. Margarethen. The barbed wire of the ‘Iron Curtain’ is countered bygd an artistic statement about freedom! The stone is currently located at Mitterberg in Pöttsching on the former imperial border between Lower Austria and Burgenland.

    1959 Establishment of the Symposium of europeisk Sculptors in the quarry in St. Margarethen.

    Karl Prantl initiates the sculptors’ symposium together with Friedrich Czagan and Heinrich Deutsch:

    Eleven sculptors from eight different countries spend three months working and living together in the quarry. Thereafter, Karl Prantl devotes each winter – alongside his artistic work – to the preparation of the sculptors’ symposia, the first of which takes place in St. Margarethen.

     

    This is followed by further symposia – held together with colleagues – in Eastern and Wester