Elgurt Iosif (12.02.1924, Chișinău — 29.11.2007, Riga) — artist, silkscreen master. Born into the family of an engraver. Received a traditional Jewish education; in 1934–38 studied at a Romanian gymnasium; in 1939–41 — at the Chișinău art school under Sh.G. Kogan. In 1941, he was deported together with his family by the Romanian occupying army into the ghettos of Transnistria, where his entire family perished. After liberation in 1944, he returned to Chișinău; in 1951, graduated from the city art school. From 1952, lived in Riga, where in 1958 he graduated from the graphics department of the Latvian Academy of Arts, studying under Arvīds Egle and Pēteris Upītis. Personal exhibitions were held in Latvia, Germany, France, Switzerland and the USA.

I. Elgurt. Invitation to the Studio. Silkscreen, 1998.