Kosso Elul was born in Mourom, Russia in 1920 and immigrated to Eretz Israel with his family in 1924. In 1939 he began his studies in Danziger's studio but after a short period he left to continue his studies at the Chicago Art Institute. There he became acquainted with pre-Columbian sculpture. In Israel, in 1948 he became one of the founding members of the New Horizons Group. Elul's expressionistic sculptures, with their daring, distorted forms and their similarity to primitive art, were greatly influenced by Danziger's Canaanite sculptures.
