Bronze bust of Winston Churchill by renowned German sculptor Benno Elkan, done in 1949.  Elkan created famous busts medallions and plaques mostly out of metals. This wonderful bronze is one of a kind and expresses a thoughtful, somber likeness of Winston Churchill. It measures 27 x 19 inches overall height including 3" wood base x 19" wide. It is signed Benno Elkan 1949. We try to describe items to the best of our ability, however the buyer accepts all responsibility for verifying  the authenticity of the items purchased.  We assume no responsibility for the authenticity or the suitability for any purpose of any item.

Biography as follows; Born in Dortmund, Germany. After studying art in Munich and Karlsruhe, he settled in Paris, 1905-11, where he taught himself sculpture, then returned to Germany as a sculptor of medals, busts and monuments.  Benno Elkan created several gravestones and public monuments featuring bronze figures. These include the Freedom Monument, Mainz (dest. 1940s) and the Victims of War Monument, Frankfurt, which was removed by the Nazis and restored after World War II.  His work also includes medals of King Edward VII (c. 1902), Gustav Mahler (1911) and Carl Flesch (1944), the bronze Jesus Christ’s Head with the Crown of Thorns for the Feuerbaum Family Monument in the Protestant Church of St Mary, Dortmund (1905), as well as a Hanukah Lamp (1927), the lamps for Westminster Abbey, and busts of Winston Churchill, Walter Rathenau, and Keynes for Kings College, Cambridge (1949).  He also produced the Candlesticks and Abbot Anscar Vonier Memorial Plaque, for Buckfast Abbey, and an elaborate Menorah for presentation to Israel’s Knesset, commissioned by the British parliament in celebration of the state’s 8th Independence Day (1956).  In 1933, Elkan created Jungle Family and the Jungle Book Relief Panel, on the south wall of the Rudyard Kipling Building, (former) Imperial Services College, Windsor (1939).  Jungle Family resides at the Edinburgh Zoo.