Is 5TJ3#CB available for purchase?

5TJ3#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of 5TJ3#CB?

5TJ3#CB (2021) measures 200 × 200 cm and was created in Oil on canvas.

How can I acquire a painting by Claus Bertermann?

Works by Claus Bertermann are available directly from the studio, through partner galleries, and via 1stDibs. Contact the studio via the form at bertermann.art/contact.

Does Claus Bertermann have a gallery representative or exclusive agent?

No. Claus Bertermann works as an independent artist without exclusive gallery representation, dealers, or agents. Works are acquired directly from the studio at bertermann.art, through non-exclusive gallery partnerships, and at international auction houses.

What is 5TJ3#CB about?

5TJ3#CB is a large square-format abstract oil painting (200 × 200 cm) completed in 2021 by Claus Bertermann. The 200 × 200 cm dimensions place this among Bertermann's most monumental abstracts — a square at near-architectural scale, large enough that the viewer's peripheral vision is fully occupied at standing distance. The palette in 5TJ3#CB is cool and atmospheric: ultramarine and deep cobalt dominate the upper and lateral registers, with chartreuse-yellow and acid green pressing through from buried layers along the canvas's diagonals. A horizontal pale void runs across the center of the work — a strip of near-white where the palette knife has cut down to the lightest exposed strata, dividing the cool blue mass above from the more chromatic complications below. Vertical and curving drag-marks wind through the field like submerged vegetation, the knife passes giving the cool body an internal directional life. The alphanumeric title (5TJ3#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. At the 200 × 200 cm scale, the serial title takes on additional weight: the painting refuses to commit to any subject even at the size where subject-painting traditionally asserts itself. 5TJ3#CB belongs to a 2021 cycle in which Bertermann pushed his sedimentary practice to monumental scale, testing whether the method's intimate gestural register could sustain itself at twice the working area.

Is 5TJ3#CB AI-generated?

No. 5TJ3#CB is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Oil on canvas. All works by Claus Bertermann are made by hand. In a time when AI-generated imagery is increasingly common, every Bertermann painting is a unique physical object, never digitally produced.

5TJ3#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

5TJ3#CB (2021) — 200 × 200 cm | 79 × 79 in

Oil on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

5TJ3#CB, 2021, 200 × 200 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — 5TJ3#CB (2021), 200 x 200 cm