Painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. Honored Artist of Russia. Studied at the Odessa Art Institute (1928-1932). Was a student of D. Krainev, A. Gaush. In 1940-1941. attended refresher courses at the Moscow State Institute of Art. IN AND. Surikov. In the 1930s. worked in Odessa, in subsequent years - in Moscow. He specialized in creating portraits and still lifes.
Participant of exhibitions since 1939. Regularly took part in all-Union art exhibitions. Works of G.I. Zeitlin are in the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), many Russian museums, as well as in museum and private collections in England, Germany, USA, France and Japan. The artist's works have been repeatedly sold at Sothebys and Christie
s auctions.