Very advise of the avant-garde - Natalia Ponamareva was the best student Feshin, he called her with him to America, but she refused, she moved from Kazan to Peter, died in the siege.
Ponomareva Natalia Petrovna
1895-1942
She was born in Kazan in 1895. Her father was a famous historian, archaeologist, creator of the collection of tools of the Stone Age. Her two brothers were also well-known scientists: one a mathematician, another biologist - rector of Kazan University. It was vysokointelligentnaya aristocratic family, but, like many of Kazan Russian families, kinship with the Tartars.
After school Natalia comes to the Kazan Academy of Arts. Feshin believes it is very talented and admired its picturesque ways, the nobility of its color.
Competition diploma painting it was a success among artists. It was a semi-fantastic polupredmetnaya work, depicting a sink in the water in the rays of sunset or sunrise. It felt love for Vrubel, which, in my opinion, all they liked, but it was in this work, of course, already something of their own. Vrubel, El Greco, Cezanne, were her favorite artists. All her life in her character was hot-headed, hard work and especially keen sense of dignity.
After graduation in 20-ies for some time taught at school drawing.
She died during the siege of Leningrad in 1942.
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