Is DKYY#CB available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of DKYY#CB?

DKYY#CB (2024) 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 DKYY#CB about?

DKYY#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (160 × 160 cm) completed in 2024 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. The painting is built on a near-complementary chromatic tension between deep emerald green and saturated cadmium red. Long diagonal palette-knife sweeps in dark green cross the canvas from the upper register down through the lower right, while a vertical column of intense red in the upper-middle holds the chromatic counterweight. Violet and magenta passages press through at the lower-left and center, where the knife has cut down to cooler buried strata. The composition refuses to settle: the red-and-green opposition is too direct to resolve, and the diagonal knife passes refuse to settle the picture into a horizontal or vertical reading. The alphanumeric title (DKYY#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The code refuses any commitment to subject; the painting is not about a red event in a green field, even where the structural reading suggests one. It is about the material event of complementary color and the knife's negotiation between them. DKYY#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann let certain square-format works operate as concentrated chromatic confrontations — two opposing color systems given near-equal weight on a single field.

Is DKYY#CB AI-generated?

No. DKYY#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.

DKYY#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

DKYY#CB (2024) — 160 × 160 cm | 63 × 63 in

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

DKYY#CB, 2024, 160 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — DKYY#CB (2024), 160 x 160 cm