A German Portrays Churchill -- Benno Elkan is seen in his studio at 26 Exeter road, London, NW 2 putting the finishing touches to his bust of Winston Churchill. A German refugee, Benno Elkan, who was born on Dortmund, Westphalia in 1877 and has studied and in Munich, Rome and Karlsruhe, is now sculpturing a bust of Britain's former permier, Winston Churchill, Benno Elkan began work on the bust soon after the battle of Dunkirk and has every hope of completing it before the ex premier returns to this country. March 27, 1946. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).