Nathan Rapoport
Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.
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
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[]
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
- Jewish sculptors
- Polish sculptors
- Polish emigrants to Israel
- Israeli emigrants to the United States
- 1911 births
- 1987 deaths
- Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw alumni
- 20th-century sculptors
- Burials at Segula Cemetery