Gernady (German) Moiseyovich Gold - a Jewish artist of Ukraine. Oils, watercolors, pastels. Born on August 23, 1933 in Kursk, Russia. Member of the National Artists' Union of the USSR from 1964. Lives in Kyiv since 1980. Trained at the Yeletskoye Art School 1949-1957 (with intervening military service during 1952-57). He studied under: Andrei Ilyich Kurnakov (from the Kharkov Art Institute) and whom Gold refers to as his "mentor," Berta Arnoldnovna Giller (a former student of Mikhail Lvovich Boychuk at the Kiev Art Institute) and Valentin Andreyevich Dudchenko.

German Gold is an artist with a compassionate, bleeding Jewish heart and a deep Russian feeling for man and for nature. He is an artist who stands out among fellow artists thanks to a harmony of talent and appealing modesty.

Ilya Repin, the famous Russian painter of the late 19th-early 20th centuries of the realist school, once said, speaking about the Impressionists: "Having done their thing, having refreshed art and having freed it from the conservative academic trend… they have become conservative themselves, limiting their art to just toying with purple, blue and orange colors." The visual arts of the 20th century tended to do away with representing the material world realistically, but the material world persistently continued to exist in all of its complex variety.