Is 5TZP#CB available for purchase?

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

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

5TZP#CB (2024) measures 160 × 140 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 5TZP#CB about?

5TZP#CB is a portrait-format abstract oil painting (160 × 140 cm) created in 2024 by Claus Bertermann. The portrait orientation — height exceeding width — gives the work an upward register that the eye reads as rising or stacked rather than expansive, a structural reading that conditions everything inside the field. The composition is built from heavy horizontal palette-knife passes that divide the canvas into stratified bands. Deep ultramarine and violet dominate the upper register; against them, rich orange-amber and rust emerge where the knife has cut down through cured layers to expose warmer underpainting. The middle of the canvas holds a band of cool grey-blue, scraped almost to the substrate. The lower register releases into warm browns and copper, with violet drags providing vertical counter-rhythm. The painting reads almost geologically — a stack of sedimentary strata, each band the record of a separate working session. The alphanumeric title (5TZP#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The code refuses any commitment to subject: even where the structural reading suggests strata, the painting is not about geology. It is about the literal sedimentation of paint and the knife's selective removal of it. 5TZP#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann allowed certain portrait-format works to operate as near-vertical sections through his own painting process — the picture as core sample.

Is 5TZP#CB AI-generated?

No. 5TZP#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.

5TZP#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

5TZP#CB (2024) — 160 × 140 cm | 63 × 55 in

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

5TZP#CB, 2024, 160 × 140 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — 5TZP#CB (2024), 160 x 140 cm