Is IMLA#CB available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of IMLA#CB?

IMLA#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 IMLA#CB about?

IMLA#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 stratified chromatic structure that runs against the square's lack of preferred orientation. Deep navy and ultramarine hold the upper register; a band of pink and rose-magenta crosses the middle; a thick horizontal mass of scarlet and crimson dominates the lower-middle; and the bottom register opens into emerald and forest-green. The composition reads almost as a horizon-bound landscape compressed into a square — a sky, a horizon, a near-sea, and a foreground — but the serial title forbids any such reading. The alphanumeric title (IMLA#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The code is intentionally non-narrative: even where the structural stratification suggests landscape, the painting is not about a landscape. It is about the material event of horizontal chromatic bands compressed into a non-directional square field. IMLA#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann tested the tension between square format and horizontal stratification — letting compositions that would naturally inhabit a landscape format reorganize themselves under the square's structural neutrality.

Is IMLA#CB AI-generated?

No. IMLA#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.

IMLA#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

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

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

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

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