Claus Bertermann — Contemporary Abstract and Figurative Painter

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Claus Bertermann (b. 1965, Stuttgart) is a German-Spanish contemporary painter working in Oviedo, Asturias. Over one decade, he has developed two distinct bodies of work: a systematic series of large-scale abstract oil paintings, built through repeated layering and controlled destruction, and a figurative series executed in oil sticks on paint-roller backgrounds.

His works have been sold at Christie's Paris, Sotheby's Cologne, Van Ham Cologne, Dorotheum Vienna, Artcurial, and Tajan. Approximately 1,000 paintings have entered private and corporate collections worldwide.

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Claus Bertermann works in two distinct bodies. His figurative series begins with broad, flat grounds of colour — applied with a roller rather than a brush, poster-like, deliberately two-dimensional. Into that field he draws directly in oil sticks: human figures, animals, silhouettes that float above the surface, partially detached from their ground. The tension between the flat background and the weightless figure is where the work lives.

His abstract paintings, painted by hand follow a different logic: layer upon layer of oil applied with overwide brushes, then cut back with a palette knife to expose what lies beneath. Each work is a record of decisions made and reversed — what survives is chosen, what is scraped away is equally intentional.

Claus Bertermann's works are available directly from the studio, through international art galleries, and at the leading auction houses — with works ranging from €5,000 to €120,000.

Every painting is a hand-painted original — made by a human artist, on canvas or linen. In an era of AI-generated imagery, Claus Bertermann's works are original objects: physical, unique, and never digitally produced.