Is GR56#CB available for purchase?

GR56#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of GR56#CB?

GR56#CB (2020) measures 130 × 130 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 GR56#CB about?

GR56#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (130 × 130 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 GR56#CB is among the cleanest in Bertermann's 2020 output. A clear cerulean and turquoise field carries the body of the painting, against which a single large curving palette-knife sweep in violet-magenta traces a near-circular form across the upper half — an arch that contains the picture's central event. Green leaf-like ribbons emerge from the lower edge and lateral margins, dragged upward and across by the knife's motion. White trails of dragged pigment cross the surface at intervals, opening the cool ground to airier strata beneath. The alphanumeric title (GR56#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 GR56#CB among Bertermann's earlier mature abstracts, in a year of unusually clean chromatic decisions in the studio. GR56#CB belongs to a 2020 cycle in which Bertermann allowed certain square works to operate at near-aquatic clarity — fewer colors, larger gestural events, and a willingness to let the surface breathe between marks.

Is GR56#CB AI-generated?

No. GR56#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.

GR56#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

GR56#CB (2020) — 130 × 130 cm | 51 × 51 in

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

GR56#CB, 2020, 130 × 130 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — GR56#CB (2020), 130 x 130 cm