Artist

Ger van Elk

Portrait of Ger van Elk

Dutch, 1941–2014

Ger van Elk was a Dutch Contemporary Abstract artist. 4 works are cataloged here, principally at Museum of Modern Art. Ger van Elk was born in Amsterdam.

Ger van Elk was a Dutch artist who created sculptures, painted photographs, installations and film. His work has been described as being both conceptual art and arte povera. Between 1959 and 1988 he lived and worked in Los Angeles, New York City, and Amsterdam, except for a period of study in Groningen in the 1960s. In 1996 he won the J. C. van Lanschot Prize for Sculpture.

Collections represented

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