Nathan Rapoport

Template:Short description Nathan Rapoport (Template:Langx; 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 Nazi Germans 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. In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.

Monumental art

His sculptures in public places, with the year they were installed in, include:

• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948), bronze, Warsaw, Poland
• Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monument
  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, bronze
  • The Last March, bronze
• Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951), at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
• Monument to Six Million Jewish Martrys (1964), at the Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza on Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA.
• Scroll of Fire (1971) in the Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem
• Liberation (Holocaust memorial) (1985), bronze, Liberty State Park, Jersey City, New Jersey
• Korczak's Last Walk at the Park Avenue Synagogue, New York, NY.
• Ghetto Square Monument at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel. https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/warsaw-memorial-personal-interpretation.html

Gallery

• Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side
  Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side
• Warsaw monument, east side
  Warsaw monument, east side
• Menorah from the Warsaw monument
  Menorah from the Warsaw monument
• The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
  The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel
• The Last March (1976), bronze, part of the Yad Vashem memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
  The Last March (1976), bronze, part of the Yad Vashem memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
• Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel
  Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel
• Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles
  Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles
• Scroll of Fire (1971), Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem
  Scroll of Fire (1971), Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem

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

• Rapaport's works in Central Jewish Library
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• POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews