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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


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




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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

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