# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ger-van-elk
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:33:45.808Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ger-van-elk"
name: "Ger van Elk"
slug: "ger-van-elk"
description: "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."
tagline: "Dutch artist (1941-2014)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ger_van_Elk_(1983).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941-03-09"
deathDate: "2014-08-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.473614666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9438800/"
    handle:    "nm9438800"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/2311869"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1_%DA%A4%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83"
    title: "جير ڤان الك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_van_Elk"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_van_Elk"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_van_Elk"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_van_Elk"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ger_van_Elk"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/003bbf4e-9f81-4ed2-b19e-25517077bc22"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q827998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5816025"
    title: "Ger van Elk"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump