Is 94BF#CB available for purchase?

94BF#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of 94BF#CB?

94BF#CB (2024) 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 94BF#CB about?

94BF#CB is an abstract oil painting (150 × 130 cm) created in 2024 by Claus Bertermann. It belongs to the systematic core of his abstract production — a body of work governed by a principle that reverses the conventional assumption about what painting is: not the accumulation of material on a surface until the image is complete, but the interplay of accumulation and selective removal until the surface reaches a state of internal coherence. In most painting traditions, the finished surface represents the final layer — the last thing the artist added. In Bertermann's sedimentary method, the finished surface represents a decision about what to keep, which includes material from early sessions exposed by palette knife work done in the final sessions. 94BF#CB is a painting in which the most visible elements may be among the earliest applied — exposed, re-seen, and deemed worth keeping by the artist's judgment at the moment of scraping. The palette knife work in 94BF#CB — as in all Bertermann's horizontal abstracts of this scale — operates in extended lateral passes across the 150 cm width, removing the topmost cured layer and creating the characteristic dual effect: a directional surface mark and a chromatic exposure. The decision about where to stop scraping, how deep to go, and which areas to leave unscraped is made in real time, under the physical pressure of the knife's momentum. This is the irreversible act at the center of Bertermann's practice.

Is 94BF#CB AI-generated?

No. 94BF#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.

94BF#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — 94BF#CB (2024), 200 x 200 cm

200 × 200 cm — 79 × 79 in

94BF#CB, 2024 — detail 5 | Claus Bertermann

94BF#CB, 2024, 200 × 200 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

94BF#CB, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann