Is Groove available for purchase?

Groove has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Groove?

Groove (2023) measures 155 × 155 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 Groove about?

Groove is a square-format abstract oil painting (155 × 155 cm) created in 2023 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 is near-monochromatic and exceptionally restrained for Bertermann's 2023 cycle. Deep cobalt and ultramarine carry the body of the canvas; against them, long ribbon-like palette-knife sweeps in emerald and forest-green twist and weave across the surface, interlacing with each other in a continuous rhythmic motion. A pocket of pale-blue and white opens through the upper-middle where the knife has cut down to the lightest exposed strata. The composition reads as a sustained pattern — the same gesture repeated and varied across the square, each ribbon a return to the previous one with a small displacement. Unlike most of Bertermann's abstracts, the title is a word rather than an alphanumeric serial code. Groove does not commit the painting to a literal subject; the title points instead to a quality the work embodies — rhythm, repetition with variation, the sustained kinetic feel of a pattern that holds itself together by recurrence rather than by depiction. Groove belongs to a 2023 cycle in which Bertermann let certain works operate at near-aquatic chromatic clarity, with the palette knife carrying the picture's structural weight through a single sustained directional logic.

Is Groove AI-generated?

No. Groove 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.

Groove | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

Groove (2023) — 155 × 155 cm | 61 × 61 in

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

Groove, 2023, 155 × 155 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Groove | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Groove (2023), 155 x 155 cm