May
Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov

Schedule. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.

People's artist of Russia, full member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Born in 1925 in a family of artists Vera Vladimirovna Khlebnikova and Peter Vasilievich Miturich.

After participating in World War II and serving in the army, he entered the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. After graduating in 1953, he began working in the field of book illustration.

From the mid-1950s to the end of the 1980s, Mai Mituric designed about 100 books for children. Among them are illustrations for the works of K. Chukovsky, S. Marshak, G. Snegirev, A. Barto, S. Mikhalkov, R. Kipling, L. Carroll, S. Aksakov, Homer's Odyssey, and Japanese Folk Tales. M. Miturich's illustrations were marked by numerous diplomas of the All-Union and All-Russian book art contests, medals of the International Book Art Exhibition in Leipzig and the International Biennale of Illustration in Bratislava, and an international diploma named after G.Kh. Andersen. The books he designed were repeatedly published abroad.

Miturich's illustrations are full of charm, plastic artistry, and humor. Largely continuing the traditions of the “Leningrad school” of the 1920-30s, on the book page he seems to be conducting a fine dialogue with V. Konashevich, Yu. Vasnetsov, N. Charushin. And for all that, Mai Miturich is always recognizable, his manner is individual and inimitable. Along with the illustration, the audience and critics remembered Miturich's easel sheets: graphic portraits of friends and relatives, watercolor landscapes that were brought from trips - to the White Sea, Altai, Crimea ... The attention of connoisseurs of the master gradually began to attract his peculiar oil painting. In the Miturich-Khlebnikov family, painting was considered the most worthy and fascinating occupation for the artist, but May Petrovich could freely surrender to this attraction only in the last period, when his career as a graphic artist reached the peak of recognition and stability. By that time, he had a very responsible painting experience: two hundred meters of mural painting in the Moscow Paleontological Museum, where Miturich worked with V. Duvidov (1989-1991).

In 2005 he was awarded the Government Prize of Japan by the Cavalier of the Order of the Rising Sun.

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Born in Moscow in 1925 in a family of artists Vera Vladimirovna

Khlebnikova and Peter Vasilievich Miturich. Graphic artist book

painter. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia, People's Artist of Russia (1986).

Full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1991), professor.

1941-1942 mobilized to dig anti-tank ditches in the Smolensk region;

He worked in the workshop of the military defense poster “TASS Windows”.

1942-1948 service in the Soviet Army, soldier. Awarded with medals for military

Merit ”(twice),“ For the Capture of Berlin ”, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree.

1953 graduated from the Faculty of Artistic and Technical Printing

products of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.

Since 1956 work in the field of book illustration for children. Illustrated

more than 100 books, marked by numerous diplomas of the All-Union

and the All-Russian Book Art Contests, including a diploma named after

Fedorov, medals of the International Book Art Exhibition in Leipzig

and the international biennale of illustration in Bratislava, international

Diploma named after HK Andersen.

Since 1957 participation in the exhibition.

1961-1964; 1983-1993 teacher of the department of drawing, painting, composition

Moscow State Polygraphic Institute, Associate Professor, Head

department, professor.

Multiple creative trips around the country and abroad.

1987 silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR for mural

at the Paleontological Museum of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

1993 Laureate of the State Prize of Russia.

1993-1994 lived and worked in Japan.

Fame was brought to him by works for the publications of Samuel Marshak, Vitaliy Bianchi,

Korney Chukovsky, Rudyard Kipling, Lewis Carroll and many others.

In the early 1980s, a collection of Japanese folk tales was published.

with illustrations by May Miturich-Khlebnikov. Subsequently, the artist’s interest

to the Japanese schedule (in Japan he had several exhibitions) brought him

Order of the Rising Sun from the Emperor of Japan.

The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery,

State Russian Museum, State Museum of Fine Arts

them. Pushkin, in many state art museums and galleries

countries, in the Museum of Modern Art of Sofia (Bulgaria), Art Gallery

Tolbukhina (Bulgaria), Russian Hokkaido Gallery (Japan), Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo

(Japan) and others.