Zhutovsky, Boris Iosifovich

Boris Iosifovich Zhutovsky (born December 14, 1932 , Moscow ) - Soviet and Russian artist , illustrator , writer .

Boris Iosifovich Zhutovsky
Date of Birth	December 14, 1932 ( 1932-12-14 ) (86 years)
Place of Birth	Moscow
Citizenship	USSR → Russia
Occupation	painter

He graduated from the artists department of the book of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (student of Professor A. Goncharov , I. Chekmazov, D. Arkhangelsky).

After graduation he worked in the Urals , in Sverdlovsk . Since 1957 - in various publishing houses in Moscow as an illustrator and designer of the book.

From the end of the 1950s to 1962, he worked in the studio of Eliy Belyutin " New Reality ".

Began to exhibit since 1959. After participating in the famous exhibition “30 Years of the Moscow Union of Artists” in the Manezh in December 1962 and a personal scandal with N. S. Khrushchev , every opportunity to participate in exhibitions in the USSR was closed to Zhutovsky. From 1964-1965, a wide display of works in galleries and museums around the world (from Gdansk to Los Angeles ) began. Since 1979, the semi-legal exhibitions of contemporary art in Moscow have resumed, at which there were also pictures of Zhutovsky.

In 1969 he was accepted into the Union of Artists of the USSR as an artist of the book. Participated in many exhibitions of book art.

He is the author of the famous portrait series of outstanding representatives of the USSR and Russia of the 20th century “The Last People of the Empire”, many of whom he knew personally. In 2004 he published his book-album of portraits and memories “The Last People of the Empire. 101 portrait of contemporaries. 1973-2003.

He lives and works in Moscow.