Nathan Rapoport
Polish-born Israeli-American sculptor and painter
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| Field | Value |
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| name | Nathan Rapoport |
| נתן רפופורט | |
| image | Natan_Rapaport_Sima_Rapaport_1937.jpg |
| caption | Natan Rapoport with his wife Sima in his Warsaw studio (1937) |
| birth_date | |
| birth_place | Warsaw, Congress Poland |
| death_date | |
| death_place | New York City, U.S. |
| field | Sculpture |
| works | Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Scroll of Fire |
| education | Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw |
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| name = Nathan Rapoport נתן רפופורט | image = Natan_Rapaport_Sima_Rapaport_1937.jpg | imagesize = | alt = | caption = Natan Rapoport with his wife Sima in his Warsaw studio (1937) | birth_name = | birth_date = | birth_place = Warsaw, Congress Poland | death_date = | death_place = New York City, U.S. | field = Sculpture | movement = | works = Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Scroll of Fire | patrons = | influenced = | awards = | elected = | website = | education = Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw 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. Biographical Note by Nathan Rapoport
Born in Warsaw Poland, I studied at the Warsaw Academy of Art. In 1935, I received a scholarship to study Art in Art in Italy and France.
On returning to Warsaw, I won a prize for my sculpture, "TENNIS" in 1936. I did not permit the Polish government to include the statue in the International Exhibition to be held in Berlin at the time of the Ilympic Games. As a result of my refusa to allow my work to go to Nazi Germany, the Polish government withdrew the prize.
I left Warsaw for Paris, where I studied at the Ecole Supérieure National des Beaux-Arts. I took part in a compétition for a monument to Paul Valliant Couturier and won a prize. Among the participants were Corbusier, Lipshitz and Auguste Perret.
After returning to Warsaw during the Second World War, I fled to Russia and continued my work there, producing a monument to post Mayakowsky, a but of the Composer Shostakovitch and others, all of winch were exhibted in the U.S.S.R.
I was aroused by the event of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and presented a model to the Soviet cultural autorise, embodying the héroïsme and martyrdom of my people. The project was reflected on the grounds that it was too nationalistes in character.
In 1946, I returned to Warsaw and presented this plan to the Central Committee of Polish Jews and to the Warsaw Art Commission. It was accepted, and today the thirty-three foot monument stands on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Finally, I settled in Israel and am dividing my time between New York and Ramat-Gan. In Israel I erected the statue of Mordchai Anilewitz, a monument in Kibutz Negba, The Scroll of Fire and Statue in Weizman Institute, The Statue of Job, and the replia of the Warsaw monument in Yad Vashem.
My works are to be seen in Paris, Philadelphia, Toronto, Plainfield, Baltimore and New York. !--
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;
- 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
Image:Warsaw Ghetto Monument 2021.jpg|Monument to the Ghetto Heroes (1948) in Warsaw, west side Image:2023 Warszawa Pomnik Bohaterów Getta od tyłu, 1.jpg|Warsaw monument, east side Image:Pomnik Bohaterow Getta 002.jpg|Menorah from the Warsaw monument Image:"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" (2819083773).jpg|The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel Image:'The Last March', bronze sculpture by Natan Yaakov Rapoport (1911-77), Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel.jpg|The Last March (1976), bronze, part of the Yad Vashem memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Image:2016 WLM - OVEDC - YAD MORDECHAI - 081.jpg|Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951) at Yad Mordechai, Israel Image:Rapoport negba.jpg|Kibbutz Negba, memorial to the participants in the 1948 battles Image:ScrollOfFireJune202023 03.jpg|Scroll of Fire (1971), Forest of the Martyrs near Jerusalem
References
References
- "Rapoport Natan". Polin Museum of Jewish History.
- (1987-06-06). "Nathan Rapoport, Sculptor of works on Holocaust, dies". [[The New York Times]].
- a slightly modified replica of the Warsaw monumentElsby, Liz. [https://www.yadvashem.org/articles/general/warsaw-memorial-personal-interpretation.html ''Rapoport's Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – a Personal Interpretation'']. Yad Vashem website. accessed 19 Oct 2021.
- [https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFA-Archive/2001/Pages/Monuments%20in%20Israel%20Commemorating%20the%20Holocaust.aspx Monuments in Israel Commemorating the Holocaust], [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel). Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] website, 3 June 2001, accessed 19 Oct 2021.
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