with pencil and brush
N. Kochigina

For the 105th anniversary of the birth of Catherine Kamshilovoy

She loved what gave his life - work. In her drawings, paintings depicted streets and buildings of Perm, faces the mid-twentieth century.

Ekaterina V. Kamshilova born September 2, 1904 in the city of Perm province Irbit (now Sverdlovsk region) in a large and happy family Viktor Pavlovich and Lyudmila Konstantinovna. The family grew Kamshilovyh five sons and daughter Katya. Girl growing up in a creative atmosphere, which has managed to carry through life. Since childhood, my father instilled in children a love for art - as a family home they set plays, dramatizations do, for whom themselves were made suits and dekoratsii66.

In 1912 the family moved to Perm Kamshilovyh because of the need to educate their children in school. The head of the family settled in the service in the Treasury Chamber.

Years to maturity fell Katie Kamshilovoy ordeal: First World War, the Revolution, the Civil War.

From 1923 to 1926 she studied at the Perm State Art College. Here, she acquired a lifelong loyal friends: MI Kuznetsov, V. Oreshnikov, VA Obolensky, PI Kuzmicheva, TI Volkov, DL Seidman and others in Student Life College was full of vibrant activity, searching for "new" art. Future artists' budhudy, "as they called themselves, staged dramatizations, sing, read poems, debated on various topics, actively participated in the speeches of revolutionary leaders and writers. Known memoirs of Catherine Victorovna Kamensky speech: "I remember the great hall, smeared with paint stools, huge palette to paint glue. Table covered with red red cloth. A bucket of water bucket. Fluttering, flew Kamensky and immediately began to read: "Saryn on Kichko! Vigorous bast went to stagger along." Bucket of drinking water. Everything was in the order of things. "

In college Ekaterina V. met her future husband - Leo Zinoviev, which in 1926, after graduating from college, went to Leningrad. There she continued her education at the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of graphic and graduated in 1930 with a degree in "engineering graphics". With thanks to Catherine V. remembered his teachers, in particular, Matthew Genrikhovich Manizer, Pavel Semenovich Naumova, Tsiolkovsky Lindblata, Dmitry Mitrokhin Isidorovich and others.

After graduating, Ekaterina V. remained in Leningrad, with her husband. She got a job at etching and lithographic workshop ES Kruglikova at the Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists. For many a decade, even before the war, in the studio, where she worked Ekaterina V., made out to the facades of the former revolutionary holidays Stroganov Palace on Nevsky Prospekt. Even before the Great Patriotic War, Ekaterina V. took part in two exhibitions representative of Leningrad - Leningrad women artists and the exhibition of the Municipal Committee of Fine Arts.

June 22, 1941 anticipated opening of the exhibition, but the war started and Ekaterina V. was forced to evacuate along with the five-year-old daughter to Perm. In Leningrad died, all property, including its work. In this artist's troubles were not over. In early 1942, news arrived of the death of her husband, who defended Leningrad, in her care were a daughter, mother, nephew, whose father was missing. In Tatyana Zinovyeva, daughter of E. Kamshilovoy, the first years in Perm left painful memories. Grandmother, Lyudmila Konstantinovna, which has planned to settle, was evicted from the service apartment. All of them are sheltered friend, Zoe Andreyevna Balandin, in the house at Cherdynsky, 6 (now the street Klimenko). There they lived for four people in the hallway area of ​​twelve square meters up to 1949.

Ekaterina V. recalled: "With the fall of 1941, has organized a workshop Agitplakat, where artists and Perm evacuated from Moscow, Leningrad, the Ukraine, worked on" agitoknami. " NN Serebrennikov to know that I am a graphic education, invited me to work on the lithographic poster. Room, where there was long written off the car, not heated. In winter, freezing water. Somehow the car repaired. Printer was a soldier who knew how to work on the printing machine, little by little he learned lithography. First there were still lithographic ink and linseed oil, but soon they ran out. I had to print ink, which instantly "salted" the stone. Circulation of 200-300 copies of battered us very hard, every 10 copies of the stone had to be cleaned again. I had to work with renowned artists such as B. Johanson, VM Oreshnikov, FI Doroshevich, V. Odintsov, who can draw, write, but did not know the technique of lithography. It was ashamed to show they are not always high-quality prints of their work. "

While working in agitmasterskoy Ekaterina V. and printed their posters, postcards, flyers, calendars, portraits of heroes of World War II and the rear, served as agitation and design works in the theme parks, train stations, near the factory entrance. One of the first poster was a poster, written in 1941 - "We have a death to the enemy your flight - aircraft engines give." Ekaterina V. was one of the few artists at that time lithography.

In 1942, Ekaterina V. was a member of the Union of Artists, and in 1946 - was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."

In the mid-1940s, Ekaterina V. took part in the exhibition "Ural - Blacksmith" (1944) and the exhibition of works of art to the Conference of the USSR for the study of the productive forces of Molotov in 1945, which was represented by her work - a lot of curly-graphic composition "locomotive factory."

In the postwar years, Ekaterina V. continued to work in agitmasterskoy. In 1949 he began working in book publishing to Perm position of technical and artistic editor. She has illustrated books, LI Davydycheva, A. Matrosov, AN Speshilova, EF Trutnev and others. But most of all, according to Tatyana, she loved the book illustrate Eugene Feodorovna Trutnev: "Boxes," "The Golden Ear", "Summer Day," "Our House", "What in the woods?"

However, the work of talented artist was not confined to "pipeline" work in a publishing house. She loved to paint portraits, and for nature often she would invite friends, friends, relatives and children and just strangers who met at various events. In 1954, Ekaterina V. did a good lithographic portrait of the writer of the Ural P. Bazhova, who has repeatedly exhibited at various exhibitions. Over the long creative life Ekaterina V. wrote many self-portraits, portraits of his daughter. Another passion of the artist was painting. She traveled extensively in the Perm region, was often in the suburbs, in Rybinsk. The objects of her nature were Chernyaevskogo corners of the forest. A special love of the artist calls "beautiful birch" at different times of the year. In Catherine Victorovna many still lifes. Tatiana says: "I remember how she literally glowed when the house appeared beautiful flowers or fruits. It installs them in the most appropriate position, grabbed the easel, easel, palette paint squeezed in, and begin the creative process, which produces little masterpieces. "

Ekaterina V. and engaged in social work, was a member of the Sverdlovsk district council, working in the committees on public education, family life and improvement of the city, three times, was elected to the board of Union of Artists Perm RSFSR, has organized many exhibitions and a device in the city and region.

Ekaterina V. Kamshilova died after a long illness November 6, 1986. EV Kamshilovoy works, paintings and drawings are stored in the Permian (100 +) and Chusovoy art galleries, local history museums in Perm and Solikamsk, as well as in private collections.

This article was prepared according to the documents private fund EV Kamshilovoy. /MU "Archive of Perm." F. 1040.
Source: http://www.permarchive.ru/index.php?...ashom-i-kistyu