Eltyshev, Leonid Andreevich

Leonid Andreevich Eltyshev began his artistic studies under the tutelage of the Russian artist, Leonid Nikitich Zhukov. Eltyshev later took-up scholastic training in art and he graduated from the Ekaterinburg School of Arts and Crafts. For the majority of his life, the artist lived and worked in Ekaterinburg. Leonid Eltyshev is chiefly known as an artist of decorative and monumental art; however, he was engaged in painting, and to a limited degree, he worked in graphic design. Of the limited work he carried out in the field of posters, some of the titles were: "Only children of capitalists were admitted to bourgeois schools…" (1920) and "Take Care of the Book" (co-designed with Alexei Baev, 1929), a poster created for Gosizdat (A.K.A. Giz), the State Publishing House of the RSFSR.