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benno
elkan obe

1877 — 1960 · Modern

Benno Elkan OBE: Sculptor of Faith and Remembrance Benno Elkan (1877-1960) was a profoundly influential German-British sculptor whose career spanned decades, marked by both artistic innovation and poignant historical circumstance. Born in Dortmund, Germany, into a Jewish family, his life became inextricably linked with themes …

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The Palette Genome

A portrait built from benno elkan obe's own colours

Every 1 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.

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Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.

Four-Colour Decomposition
The Chromatic Knot

Every painting, placed on the hue wheel

Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.

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Reading the Genome

The signature, in numbers