Is CB3U#CB available for purchase?

CB3U#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of CB3U#CB?

CB3U#CB (2024) measures 130 × 150 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 CB3U#CB about?

CB3U#CB is an abstract oil painting (130 × 150 cm) created in 2024 by Claus Bertermann. Its title — like all titles in his coded abstract series — is a deliberate resistance to the naming conventions that dominate contemporary painting. In much of the contemporary art market, titles function as interpretive guides: they tell the viewer what to see, what to feel, what narrative to construct around the work. Bertermann's decision to use alphanumeric codes for his abstract paintings is a refusal of this guidance. The code CB3U#CB does not promise meaning — it records a fact: that this is a specific work within a larger body of practice, created at a specific time, bearing a specific material identity. This refusal of the literary has a philosophical dimension rooted in Bertermann's understanding of what abstract painting can do that language cannot. A painting built through the accumulation and selective removal of oil paint layers creates forms of experience — chromatic, spatial, temporal — that have no direct linguistic equivalent. To give such a work a descriptive title would be to suggest that it illustrates something that could be named. It cannot. It is what it is. CB3U#CB is a painting of a specific internal logic: 130 × 150 cm of accumulated and excavated oil paint that achieves a state of tension between its applied and removed material. This state cannot be adequately described in words, but it can be experienced directly — which is the point.

Is CB3U#CB AI-generated?

No. CB3U#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.

CB3U#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — CB3U#CB (2024), 130 x 150 cm

130 × 150 cm — 51 × 59 in

CB3U#CB, 2024 — detail 5 | Claus Bertermann

CB3U#CB, 2024, 130 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CB3U#CB, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann