Nathan Rapoport

Natan Rapoport with his wife Sima in his Warsaw studio (1937).

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[]

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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[]

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