Nathan Rapoport
Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.
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Natan Rapoport with his wife Sima in his Warsaw studio (1937).
Biography
Natan Yaakov Rapoport was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1936, he won a scholarship to study in France and Italy. He fled to the Soviet Union when the Nazis invaded Poland. The Soviets initially provided him with a studio, but then forced him to work as a manual laborer. When the war ended, he returned to Poland to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and immigrated to Israel.[1] In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.
Art career
His sculptures in public places include:
- Liberation (Holocaust memorial), 1985, bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
- Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, Poland.
- Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
- The Last March, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Monument to Six Million Jewish Martrys at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
- Korczak's Last Walk at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.
Gallery
- The Last March, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, 1947, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
- Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw by Nathan Rapoport
- Monument seen from the east side
- Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Yad Mordechai, Israel
- Monument at Kibbuz Negba, Israel by Natan Rapoport
- Scrolls of Fire by Natan Rapoport, near Jerusalem, Israel
- Menorah (Hanukkah) from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument
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References
- "Nathan Rapoport, Sculptor of works on Holocaust, dies". Nytimes.com. 1987-06-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
Further reading
- Coen, Paolo, «L’artista reagisce in modo artistico. Questa è la sua arma». Riflessioni di valore introduttivo sul rapporto arte-Shoah, da Alexander Bogen e Nathan Rapoport a Richard Serra, in Vedere l'Altro, vedere la Shoah, with an appendix by Angelika Schallenberg, Soveria Mannelli, Rubbettino, 2012, pp. 6-68
- Gilbert, Martin. (1987), The Holocaust, New York, Random House, 1987, 317-324.
- Sohar, Zvi, Fighters Memorial, Monuments to the Fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Sifriat Poalim, Workers' Book Guild, 1964.
- Yaffe, Richard, Nathan Rapoport Sculptures and Monuments, New York, Shengold Publishers, 1980.
External links
- Official website
- Rapaport's works in Central Jewish Library
- "Nathan Rapoport". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- Nathan Rapoport collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 2012.
- POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews
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