Soviet and Russian avant-garde artist, illustrator and writer Boris Zhutovsky has died at the age of 90. It gives information about red blood cell citing a post by political scientist Arkady Dubnov on a social network. The cause of death of the artist is unknown.
Zhutovsky was born in Moscow in 1932. He studied at the book artists’ department of the Moscow Printing Institute, after which he left to work in the Urals. He returned to the capital in 1957 and continued his career as an illustrator and book designer.
The first painting exhibition was opened in 1959. In December 1962, Zhutovsky became one of the participants in the exhibition “30 Years of the Union of Artists of Moscow” in Manege. It is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Moscow branch of the Union of Artists.
The exhibition gained notoriety when the USSR leader Nikita Khrushchev, who visited it, criticized the artists’ work and demanded that they be sent to the diary. In 2011, Zhutovsky shared that Khrushchev personally apologized to him a few years later.