Is HUVA#CB available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of HUVA#CB?

HUVA#CB (2020) measures 150 × 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 HUVA#CB about?

HUVA#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (150 × 150 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. The composition is among the most structurally legible in Bertermann's 2020 output. A pale cerulean and white pocket of sky-like space holds the upper register; vertical palette-knife columns in deep navy, emerald-green, and forest-teal rise from the lower edge through the canvas like trunks or pillars. Through and beneath them, intrusions of copper-orange and rose-magenta press up where the knife has cut to warmer buried layers. The lower-right corner releases into pale yellow and white — a near-horizon glow that anchors the right edge. The alphanumeric title (HUVA#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works — a non-narrative identifier that locates the painting within an archive without committing it to subject. The structural reading is unusually landscape-like for a square abstract, but the serial title forbids treating it as one: the work is not about a forest at dusk, even where its columnar structure and sky-pocket suggest it. HUVA#CB belongs to a 2020 cycle in which Bertermann allowed certain square works to flirt with near-representational reading without committing to it — leaning into the tension between abstraction and recognition.

Is HUVA#CB AI-generated?

No. HUVA#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.

HUVA#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

HUVA#CB (2020) — 150 × 150 cm | 59 × 59 in

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

HUVA#CB, 2020, 150 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — HUVA#CB (2020), 150 x 150 cm