Herman Gold

Background

About Herman Gold

I am a Jewish artist and Honored Artist of Ukraine, now living in Israel.I was born in Kursk in 1933. During World War II I was in evacuation, where my little sister died. After the war, my father was also gone.Since the age of 13, I have been engaged in the only thing I love, creating life on the canvas.In 1949, I enrolled in the Yelets State College of Arts, where I studied under outstanding A. Kurnakov, V. Dudchenko and B. Giller.Since the end of the 1950s I began to create a Jewish series of paintings, which I am still working on.In 1960-1962, I lived and worked in the studio of N.N. Zhukov, National Artist of the USSR.In 1964, I joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. Since 1980, I lived and worked in Kyiv. Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine.In 2008 I was awarded the title of Honored Artist of Ukraine.In 2022 the war came to Ukraine again. Today I continue my artistic journey in Israel, with an immense gratitude to my historical homeland and an immense pain for Ukraine.My paintings appear in Kyiv National Museum of Modern Art, National Museum "Kyiv Picture Gallery"(Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art), Ukrainian National Museum of Literature, Sholom Aleichem Museum, USSR Academy of Sciences, as well as in private collections in USA, UK, France, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Australia, Greece, and Israel.