Alphabetical list of artists

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Dan Rappoport, Israeli sculptor, born 1944

Dan Rappoport was born on Kibbutz Ramat Yochanan. He learned woodcarving from his grandfather, a Zionist pioneer who also built violins. He studied metalwork at the Haifa Technical High School. He worked for a year at the studio of the sculptor Matania Abramson and studied art history and drawing with Prof. Joseph Schwartzman. In 1970, he opened a sculpture studio in Old Jaffa. In 1972, he went to Paris for further artistic training. His studies at the Beaux-Arts in Paris were interrupted by the Yom Kippur War, which influenced his later work.

In 1988-1990, Rappoport created large bronze sculptures commissioned by the government, among them "Power of the Rainbow," "Chariot of the Wind," "Stone Bird," and "Last Supper." In 1991, he studied for his MA at Wimbledon College of Art, creating two bronze sculptures on tennis themes, one of them installed in Wimbeldon Park. Another of his works, "The Forest," overlooks the reef in Eilat.

Education

Art history and drawing with Prof. Joseph Schwartzman, sculpture with Matania Abramson
1958–62 Technical High School, Haifa
1972–73 Beaux Arts, Paris
1991 MA, Wimbeldon College of Art, England

Environmental Sculptures

1984 Memorial to fallen soldiers in Nahal Bezek helicopter crash
1989 Sculpture park at Tsrifin
Many other environmental sculptures