Samuel "Sam" Rabin ( born Samuel "Sam" Rabin , nee Samuel Rabinovich , July 20, 1903 , Chitham Hill, Manchester , Great Britain - December 20, 1991 , Poole , Great Britain ) - British sculptor, artist , teacher and freestyle wrestler, Olympic Games bronze medalist [3] [4]
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Biography
Born in 1903 in Manchester into a Jewish family of Jacob and Sara Rabinovich (nee Krasleschikova), people from Vitebsk . His father was a hat cutter, later a hat merchant, his mother was engaged in assembling jewelry.
Sam Rabin early showed the ability to draw, and at the age of eleven, having received a scholarship, he was accepted into the Municipal School of Art of Manchester, becoming the youngest student of the school in its entire history. In this school, he studied under the guidance of the French impressionist painter Adolf Valle. In 1921, Sam Rabin entered the School of Fine Arts ( Eng. Slade School of Fine Art ) part of University College London . In this school, he studied until 1924 under the guidance of Henry Tonks . In 1924, Sam Rabin moved to Paris, where he met the sculptor Charles Despio and continued his studies with him.
In 1928, he was selected by Charles Holden to manufacture one of eight sculptures symbolizing the winds designed to decorate the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London , at that time the largest company of the London Underground . To date, the sculpture adorns the building of the headquarters of the London Underground. In 1930, he presented the public with another work: two masks, carved by Rabin and symbolizing the past and future, decorated the former building of The Daily Telegraph in Fleet Street .
However, the work of the sculptor did not bring sufficient income. Sam Rabin has always been physically strong, engaged in boxing and wrestling. Represented Britain at the 1928 Olympics.
At the 1928 Summer Olympics in Antwerp he fought in the weight category up to 79 kilograms (medium weight). The tournament was held on the Bergval system . In the middleweight division, 9 wrestlers fought for the title
In his very first meeting, Sam Rabin lost to Donald Stockton , and until Stockton lost the semifinal meeting, he was listed as a silver medal contender, not participating in the meetings. After Stockton's defeat in the semifinal meeting, Sam Rabin was sent to the tournament for third place. After the final meeting, the situation developed as follows: Ralph Hammond, the second finalist, refused to participate in competitions for second place. As a result, he retired to the tournament for third place, respectively, sending those two wrestlers who previously lost to him, and who had the right to the tournament for the "bronze", beyond the line of potential winners. Hammond also refused the third place tournament and in connection with these failures, there were only two contenders for the bronze medal: Sam Rabin and Anton Preg from South Africa, who lost to the champion in the first meeting, and then lost to Stockton in the tournament for second place. But Anton Preg refused to participate in the tournament for third place.
As a result, the bronze medal was awarded to Sam Rabin, who held only one meeting at the tournament, and in that - lost. This result is a good illustration of the imperfection of the Bergvall tournament system .
See tournament table
The plight of Rabin in 1932 began to seriously earn a living from the struggle. He became a professional wrestler and under the pseudonym "Rabin the Cat" ( Eng. Rabin the Cat ) and "Sam Rednor - a devout Jew" ( Eng. Sam Radnor the Hebrew Jew ) toured the UK, gaining fame. He starred in an episodic role in the Oscar-winning film The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and the film Scarlet Primrose (1934).
Sam Rabin had a good baritone , and without having any musical education, in the 1940s, he performed in opera , particularly as a member of Stars in Battledress , an organization created as part of the British armed forces, and performing during the war in front of fighters. Rabin, in 1946, was even listened to by Viktor Sabat , at that time conductor La Scala .
In 1946 he began teaching drawing in Goldsmiths . Among his students are the designer, creator of the miniskirt, Mary Quant, and the artist, holder of the Order of the British Empire, Bridget Riley . In 1965, Sam Rabin left Goldsmiths, and until 1985 he taught at the Bournemouth College of Art , and then almost until his death in 1991 at the Poole Art Center .
He was married twice. In 1935, he married Ida Lee Shuster, but the marriage broke up. In 1956, he entered into marriage with Frances Caye, in 1960 a son was born from marriage.
He died in 1991.
Not so many works of the artist have been preserved. Some of his paintings are stored in particular in the British Museum , the Museum of Sport in Paris and the collection of the British Government.
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Links
- Samuel Rabin - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (English)
- Samuel Rabin - profile on the International Wrestling Database (eng.)
- Sheeran, John Rabin Samuel (1903–1991), artist and art teacher . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press (September 2004). The appeal date is September 18, 2010.
- Taylor, Paul. Clash between sport and politics . - Sussex Academic Press, 2004.
- Ward-Jackson, Philip. Public Sculpture of the City of London . - Liverpool University Press, 2003. - ISBN 0-85323-977-0 .