Biography
His father, Losif Losifovich Zhutovsky (1904-1938), an engineer in the polar aviation detachment, died in a plane crash.
He graduated from the book artists department of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, a student of Professor Andrei Goncharov, I. Chekmazov, Dmitry Arkhangelsky.
After graduating, he worked in Sverdlovsk. Since 1957 — in various publishing houses in Moscow as an illustrator and book designer.
From the late 1950s to 1962, he studied at Eliy Belyutin's studio "New Reality". Gradually Zhutovsky won recognition with other non-conformist painters who aspired to carry on the rich traditions of Russian avant-garde and Cubism that were banned in the USSR since the end of the 1920s. Zhutovsky befriended such painters as Vladimir Veisberg, Oskar Rabin, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Mikhail Roginsky, Igor Shelkovsky, Mikhail Shvartsman. He became acquainted with the famous collector Georgy Kostaki, the future founder of “Kostaki Museum” in Saloniki in Greece.
He began exhibiting in 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, who threatened to "send him to logging", Zhutovsky was denied the opportunity to participate in exhibitions. However, after Khrushchev's resignation, Zhutovsky talked to him at his dacha, he apologized, and the artist was invited to Nikita Sergeyevich's last birthday.
In the 1970s Zhutovsky became close to a group of Moscow artists nicknamed “Sretensky Boulevard”, which included Ilja Kabakov, Viktor Pivovarov, Vladimir Yankilevsky, Erik Bulatov, Oleg Vasiliev, Ivan Chuikov, Mikhail Roginsky.
After Exhibition hall at Malaya Gruzinskaya street, 28, was allocated for use of non-conformist artists, he exhibited there alongside with such artists as Vladimir Nemukhin, Nikolai Vechtomov, Vladimir Weisberg, Mikhail Schwarzman, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Mikhail Roginsky, Mikhail Grobman, Igor Shelkovsky.
In the 1990s and 2000s, Zhutovsky again became close to the nonconformist artists from Tarusa (Eduard Steinberg, Yuri Zheltov, Igor Vulokh, Yury Zlotnikov), with whom he had worked and exhibited since the 1960s. In 2006, 2008, 2010 he participated in joint exhibitions of the artists of the sixties in the Tarusa Art Gallery.
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, his book-album of portraits and memoirs "The Last People of the Empire. 101 Portraits of Contemporaries. 1973-2003" was published for the first time and then republished.
Selected paintings
SelfPortrait
Okudzhava and Lentulov
Nu (1966)
Ulitsa Pobedy
