Nathan Rapoport

Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.

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

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  The Last March, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
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  The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze sculpture by Nathan Rapoport, 1947, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
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  Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw by Nathan Rapoport
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  Monument seen from the east side
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  Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz at Yad Mordechai, Israel
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  Monument at Kibbuz Negba, Israel by Natan Rapoport
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  Scrolls of Fire by Natan Rapoport, near Jerusalem, Israel
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  Menorah (Hanukkah) from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Monument

References

1. "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

Media related to Natan Rapoport at Wikimedia Commons

• 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