Nathan Rapoport
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Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.
Biography
[edit]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.[1] In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.
Monumental art
[edit]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;[2] a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monument[3]
- Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951), at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel[2]
- 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
[edit]- Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side
- Warsaw monument, east side
- Menorah from the Warsaw monument
- 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
- Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel
- Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles
References
[edit]- ^ "Nathan Rapoport, Sculptor of works on Holocaust, dies". The New York Times. 1987-06-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
- ^ a b c d Monuments in Israel Commemorating the Holocaust, Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, 3 June 2001, accessed 19 Oct 2021.
- ^ Elsby, Liz. Rapoport's Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – a Personal Interpretation. Yad Vashem website. accessed 19 Oct 2021.
Further reading
[edit]- 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
[edit] 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