Zhutovsky Boris

Boris Iosifovich was born on December 14, 1932 in Moscow. He was educated at the Moscow Printing Institute, graduating from the department of book artists. Zhutovsky studied with Professor Andrei Goncharov. After graduating from the institute, Boris Iosifovich worked in Sverdlovsk. Since 1957, he began working as an illustrator and book designer in Moscow publishing houses. For many years, Boris Zhutovsky studied in Eliya Belyutin’s studio “New Reality”. This creative association of abstract artists became a stronghold of informal art in the USSR. Boris Iosifovich began exhibiting his works in 1959. He was one of the artists who took part in the famous scandalous exhibition “30 years of Moscow Union of Artists” in Manege in December 1962. Then Nikita Khrushchev, who held the post of General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the USSR, described the work of the avant-garde artists in the most unpleasant terms. After this day, Boris Zhutovsky could no longer participate in Soviet exhibitions, and from 1964 he began to show his works in museums around the world.

In 1969, Boris Iosifovich became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1979, semi-legal exhibitions of contemporary art resumed in Moscow, and Boris Zhutovsky repeatedly exhibited his paintings in the smell on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya Street. But he did not have the right to sell paintings in Russia, so he made a living by illustrating and designing books, as a result he gained great fame and won various awards. As an illustrator, Zhutovsky participated in many book exhibitions. In 1987, the artist published an article “Until I Died” in the Moscow News newspaper. dedicated to the problems and fate of yesterday's unofficial art in the country. Two years later, the magazine “Ogonyok” published an article about the work of Boris Iosifovich “I am sick of time.” Around the same time, Literaturnaya Gazeta published memoirs about the events of the early sixties - “Group portrait in a government interior.”

Literary creativity Zhutovsky wrote a portrait series of outstanding representatives of the USSR and Russia of the twentieth century, “The Last People of the Empire.” In 2004, he published a book in which he collected portraits and memoirs, “The Last People of the Empire. 101 portraits of contemporaries. 1973-2003".

In 2011, Boris Zhutovsky presented to the audience a painting that he had been painting for thirty years at the beginning of 2011. The work, which was intended as a monograph about life, turned out to be a book about Russia in the twentieth century.