Museum exhibit /V.V. Karklin'sh. “Pine tree”. A study.
V.V. Karklin’sh. “Pine Tree”. A study. Card. Oils. 1957. Inta (Komi ASSR). Vitol’d Vilisovich Karklin’sh (1903-1966) was an artist and architect. In 1946 he was sentenced in the Latvian SSR to 10 years in a Corrective Labour Camp. He served his sentence initially in Kargopol’Lag, then from 1950 in MinLag. While he was imprisoned he worked as a theatrical artist, a designer and a works superintendent. When he was released from the camp in 1955, he stayed in Inta. After 1956 he was the first Chief Municipal Architect. He continued to paint and worked as a stage decorator at the theatre. The study is kept in the Inta Local History Museum (Komi Republic). It was given to the Museum in 1995 by M.K. Len, V.V. Karklin’sh’s widow. 
 
 
 
 
Detailed annotationV.V. Karklin’sh. “Pine Tree”. A study. Card. Oils. 1957. Inta (Komi ASSR). Vitol’d Vilisovich Karklin’sh (1903-1966) was an artist and architect. In 1946 he was sentenced in the Latvian SSR to 10 years in a Corrective Labour Camp. He served his sentence initially in Kargopol’Lag, then from 1950 in MinLag. While he was imprisoned he worked as a theatrical artist, a designer and a works superintendent. When he was released from the camp in 1955, he stayed in Inta. After 1956 he was the first Chief Municipal Architect. He continued to paint: he drew landscapes, “still lifes” and worked as a stage decorator at the theatre. He organised art exhibitions in Inta and contributed to them himself. He died in Inta in 1966. In 1995 his widow – Mariia Karlovna Len – presented 17 of the artist’s works to the Inta Local History Museum.
V.V. Karklin’sh is remembered in N.A. Glazov’s book "Koshmar parallel'nogo mira. Zapiski vracha" [“The Nightmare of a Parallel World. A Doctor’s Notes.”] (Novosibirsk, 1999): “Karklinsh was known in Inta as an artist. He was an architect by profession and he also had another qualification, that of an electronics engineer. Before the war he was involved in diplomatic activities in Latvia, but he was then sent to the camps. He lived in Inta and had quite a wide circle of friends. He was kind and of a delicate disposition: he was a real intellectual."
 
PersonsKarklin'sh V.V., author
 
PersonsLen Mariia Karlovna (Korneliusovna), gave the item to the museum
 
Web page?Yes
 
 
Museum exhibit /V.V. Karklin'sh. “Pine tree”. A study.