Nathan Rapoport
Polish-born Jewish sculptor and painter (1911-1987)
Nathan Rapoport (Hebrew: נתן רפופורט; 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. Rapoport studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw from 1931 to 1936, after which he received 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 and later 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 the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1976), bronze, at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County in Glen Cove, New York.
Monument to Mordechai Anielewicz (1951), at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, Israel
Monument to Six Million Jewish Martyrs (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.
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