Is KSNK#CB available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of KSNK#CB?

KSNK#CB (2024) 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 KSNK#CB about?

KSNK#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (130 × 130 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 composition is built from heavy horizontal palette-knife sweeps that stratify the canvas into bands of saturated color — crimson and burnt sienna across the upper register, deep emerald and forest-green through the middle, ochre and amber bands at the lower edge. A single curving diagonal sweep in burgundy crosses from upper-left to lower-right, cutting across the stratification and dragging surface pigment along its arc. Yellow and amber pockets press through at the lateral margins where the knife has cut to warmer buried strata. The alphanumeric title (KSNK#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. The code refuses any commitment to subject; even where the stratified structure suggests landscape or geological banding, the painting is not about a place. It is about the material event of horizontal accumulation and a single diagonal pass that crosses it. KSNK#CB belongs to a 2024 cycle in which Bertermann let certain square works carry a single dominant diagonal event across an otherwise stratified field — testing how much one decisive mark can reorganize an entire chromatic structure.

Is KSNK#CB AI-generated?

No. KSNK#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.

KSNK#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

KSNK#CB (2024) — 130 × 130 cm | 51 × 51 in

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

KSNK#CB, 2024, 130 × 130 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — KSNK#CB (2024), 130 x 130 cm