Is 8K2G#CB available for purchase?

8K2G#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of 8K2G#CB?

8K2G#CB (2020) measures 160 × 160 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 8K2G#CB about?

8K2G#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (160 × 160 cm) completed in 2020 by Claus Bertermann. The square is a format Bertermann returns to periodically as a deliberate formal constraint — a shape that refuses hierarchy, with no natural top or bottom, with no implied direction of gaze. The palette in 8K2G#CB is built around a cool body of teal, turquoise, and deep emerald, with a central event in copper and rust where the palette knife has cut through to warmer underpainting. Silver-grey and pale lavender ribbon-like sweeps wind diagonally across the canvas, intersecting at multiple angles and operating as structural counter-marks against the cool chromatic body. A magenta accent at the lower right introduces the only fully chromatic intrusion of warmth — a small but compositionally decisive event. The alphanumeric title (8K2G#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works — a non-narrative identifier that locates the painting within an archive without binding it to subject. The 2020 date places 8K2G#CB among Bertermann's pre-pandemic and early-pandemic abstracts, in a year in which the studio practice intensified as external rhythms slowed. 8K2G#CB belongs to a 2020 cycle in which Bertermann let cooler-toned abstract works admit small, decisive intrusions of warm chromatic counter-event.

Is 8K2G#CB AI-generated?

No. 8K2G#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.

8K2G#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

8K2G#CB (2020) — 160 × 160 cm | 63 × 63 in

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

8K2G#CB, 2020, 160 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

8K2G#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — 8K2G#CB (2020), 160 x 160 cm