(R. 18.04.1921, Baku), artist-sculptor, teacher, member. Union of artists of Russia (1997). In the childhood was engaged in ballet and drawing. Entered the Mosk. Institute of applied and decorative arts (MIPIDI). With the primary Led. Otech. the war had painted the roofs of the buildings the scenery, masking from the attacks of the fascist. aviation, on duty in air defense outfits. In 1941-43 with the Institute was evacuated to Samarkand. Among her teachers R. R. Falk, I. Mashkov, V. A. Favorsky and others studied Sculpture at N. G. Zelensky and Z. G. Ivanova, participated in the creation of a number of the monument. proizv. V. I. Mukhina. Personal circumstances prevented E. to accept the invitation Mukhina's work in her Studio. The MIPIDI graduated in 1947 with a degree in “art pottery”. Hands. diploma – HL hood. The Bolshoi theatre, the painter and sculptor V. A. Vassiliev. Thesis (supp. painting “picking apples”) were transferred to Leningrad. the highest of arts.-prom. Uch-school them. Mukhina (nowadays Academy of decorative and monument. art) and the picturesque, the sketch is in the collection of COCG. E. married student sculpt. branch M. I. Tsepeleva. With him after graduating from the Institute worked in Verbilki in the Dmitrov porcelain plant (engaged in small forms). Miniatures E. 1950s in chamotte and porcelain (“Girl with butterfly”, “the boy with the airplane”) were issued in large editions. In the early 1950s Tsepeleva born the son of Vladimir (see V. M. Tsepelev) moved in Person. E. engaged in PED. worker-STU: supervised the art room “metallurg”, then in the 1960s went to Cheboksary, where she created the monument. sculpture. Back in Chel., continued to the Studio. Mn. the students began the profes. artists. In 1973 he linked his fate with the architect. B. N. Egorov. Work Is (from miniature to monument. statuary plastics) bear witness to a rich and creative. the range of the sculptor: Fig., skulpt. studies and sketches, compositions fireclay, glazed ceramics, small sculptures in the tree. The artist owns the present-day. form and understanding of the conventions of her language., is based on the tradition of the 20th century (A. Matveev, V., Lembruch, G. Moore), etc.-Egyptian plastics, Nar. wooden sculptures. Participant of exhibitions from 1948, among K-ryh – exhibition of diploma works of applied and decorative arts in the Exhibition hall on Kuznetsky most (Moscow, 1948); all-Russia. exhibition production. (Moscow, 1955); Proceedings Of All-Union., dedicated. 50-anniversary of Magnitogorsk (Magnitogorsk, 1979); 5-I zones. “Ural socialist” (Tyumen, 1979); region.; the exhibition “the Artistic environment of Chelyabinsk. Sculptors Valentina Egorova, Michael Tsepelev, Vladimir Tsepelev” (COCH, 1998).
G. S. Trifonova
Lit.: N I K I f o R o V a T. “Here smell of Russia” // the CR. 1990. March 24-25; T R I f o n o V and G. it is Necessary to have time: the Fate of the sculptor Valentina Yegorova and the fate of dynasties.. intelligentsia // ibid. 1996. 1 Aug.; R a d h e n K o E. the woman at the hearth. 1998. 18 Feb.; T R I f o n o V and G. the Sculptors // ibid, Artistic environment of Chelyabinsk: Sculptors Egorova Valentina Trifonovna, G. R. 1921. Tsepelev Michael Ivanovich, 1916-1978. Tsepelev, V. M., 1948-1996: drawing, sculpture, painting: Cat. CA. / AVT.-comp. G. S. Trifonova. H, 1998.