Elo Justin

(Ljubljana, 1903 – Grosuplje, 1966)

Elko Justin (Gabrijel Justin), a Slovenian painter and graphic artist, studied at the Ljubljana Secondary Technical School, where he visited the sculpture and carving department with prof. Repič and painter with prof. Šantel. He studied modeling, graphics, woodcutting and erasing. He continued his studies at the Vienna Academy of Painting, and was forced to leave it together with other Yugoslav students and attend the art school at St. Anne's in Vienna's first district. At the Vienna State Graphic Institute, there is a study painting in oil, watercolor, pastel, graphics, radiation, copperplate engraving and lithography. He traveled to Berlin, Dresden an Munich, later served as an illustrator and painter (summarized from Wikipedia).