Is GHW2#CB available for purchase?

GHW2#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of GHW2#CB?

GHW2#CB (2024) measures 210 × 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 GHW2#CB about?

GHW2#CB is a portrait-format abstract oil painting (210 × 160 cm) created in 2024 by Claus Bertermann. The 210 × 160 cm dimensions place the work at substantial portrait scale — taller than the viewer, with the upward orientation reinforced by the height-over-width proportion. The palette is cool and crystalline. Magenta and rose-violet diagonal palette-knife sweeps cross with emerald and forest-green passes, creating a near-prismatic structure at the canvas's center. A pale void of cool blue and white opens through the middle right, where multiple knife passes have removed pigment back to the lightest exposed strata. Ultramarine and cobalt hold the upper-left corner; a yellow accent at the lower right provides the painting's only fully warm chromatic event. The composition reads almost as light refracted through a thick prism — color separating along the diagonals of the knife passes. The alphanumeric title (GHW2#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The code refuses any commitment to subject; even where the structural reading suggests prismatic refraction or crystalline geometry, the painting is not about light. It is about the material event of color separated by directional scraping. GHW2#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann let portrait-format works push the chromatic register toward a near-crystalline brightness — light treated as material rather than as illumination.

Is GHW2#CB AI-generated?

No. GHW2#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.

GHW2#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

GHW2#CB (2024) — 210 × 160 cm | 83 × 63 in

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

GHW2#CB, 2024, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

GHW2#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — GHW2#CB (2024), 210 x 160 cm