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Nathan Rapoport
Natan Rapoport with his wife Sima in his Warsaw studio (1937)
Born(1911-11-07)November 7, 1911
DiedJune 4, 1987(1987-06-04) (aged 75)
EducationAcademy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
Known forSculpture
Notable workMonument to the Ghetto Heroes, Scroll of Fire

Nathan Rapoport (1911–1987) was a Warsaw-born Jewish sculptor and painter, later a resident of Israel and then the United States.

Biography

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Natan Yaakov Rapoport was born in Warsaw, Poland.[1] 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.[2] In 1959, he moved to the United States. He lived in New York City until his death in 1987.

Monumental art

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

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References

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  1. ^ "Rapoport Natan". Wirtualny Sztetl. Polin Museum of Jewish History. Retrieved 2024-10-24.
  2. ^ "Nathan Rapoport, Sculptor of works on Holocaust, dies". The New York Times. 1987-06-06. Retrieved 2019-08-06.
  3. ^ a b c d Monuments in Israel Commemorating the Holocaust, Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, 3 June 2001, accessed 19 Oct 2021.
  4. ^ Elsby, Liz. Rapoport's Memorial to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – a Personal Interpretation. Yad Vashem website. accessed 19 Oct 2021.

Further reading

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  • 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.
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