Is KR44#CB available for purchase?

KR44#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of KR44#CB?

KR44#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 KR44#CB about?

KR44#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 KR44#CB is among the cleanest in Bertermann's 2020 output. Deep ultramarine and cobalt hold the upper-left register; vivid emerald and chartreuse-green diagonal sweeps cross the canvas from upper-right to lower-left; passages of violet and magenta press through at the upper edge and lower-right where the knife has cut to warmer buried layers. A pale white-and-cyan event in the central area opens the cool body to a near-luminous interior. The composition reads almost as a near-prismatic refraction — color separated along the diagonal axes of the knife passes. The alphanumeric title (KR44#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 KR44#CB among Bertermann's earlier mature abstracts. KR44#CB belongs to a 2020 cycle in which Bertermann let smaller-square works operate at near-aquatic chromatic clarity — fewer hues, larger gestural events, and a willingness to let the cool body breathe between marks.

Is KR44#CB AI-generated?

No. KR44#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.

KR44#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

KR44#CB (2020) — 130 × 130 cm | 51 × 51 in

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

KR44#CB, 2020, 130 × 130 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

KR44#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — KR44#CB (2020), 130 x 130 cm