Gering, Andreas - 1892 Nuremberg - 1957 ibid., German painter and graphic artist, after an apprenticeship as a graphic artist he attended the Nuremberg School of Arts and Crafts (now the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts) and then studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts under Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl, Andreas Gering painted mainly in watercolor, occasionally also in oil, he preferred landscapes as motifs, His lithographs and etchings, sheets from the field sketchbook, motifs such as earth, death or redemption thematize the events of the war and reveal Gering to be a keen observer and draughtsman, portfolio works in the possession of the museums of the city of Nuremberg: "Leben u. Tod" (1919), field drawings (1914-1918, lithographs), "Die Erde" (1921, etchings), "Papagei", watercolor/paper, green parrot on a branch, two large white flowers in the left background, generous, broad painting style, monogrammed 'AG' and dated 1948 at bottom left, approx. 29x22cm, frame behind glass, bumped approx. 43x38cm, from the artist's estate