Is IWR3#CB available for purchase?

IWR3#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of IWR3#CB?

IWR3#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 IWR3#CB about?

IWR3#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 palette is among the most chromatically aggressive in Bertermann's 2024 cycle. Saturated magenta, hot pink, cadmium yellow, and emerald green compete across a green-dominant ground that the palette knife has cut through repeatedly. Long diagonal sweeps from upper-left to lower-right cross with vertical descending columns, creating a near-lattice of intersecting marks. Pockets of ultramarine and violet press through at intervals where the knife has cut to cooler buried strata. The composition refuses to settle: every chromatic decision is matched by a counter-mark in the opposite register. The alphanumeric title (IWR3#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The serial-number proximity to IWR4#CB marks the two as siblings in a 2024 sub-cycle exploring high-saturation lattice structures at square dimensions. IWR3#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann let the chromatic register open to its widest range and the lattice structure carry the picture's organizing logic — each color event held in place by an intersecting knife pass.

Is IWR3#CB AI-generated?

No. IWR3#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.

IWR3#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

IWR3#CB (2024) — 160 × 160 cm | 63 × 63 in

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

IWR3#CB, 2024, 160 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — IWR3#CB (2024), 160 x 160 cm