Is V5SL#CB available for purchase?

V5SL#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of V5SL#CB?

V5SL#CB (2021) measures 200 × 200 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 V5SL#CB about?

V5SL#CB is a large square-format abstract oil painting (200 × 200 cm) completed in 2021 by Claus Bertermann. The 200 × 200 cm dimensions place this among Bertermann's most monumental abstracts — a square at near-architectural scale, large enough that the viewer's peripheral vision is fully occupied at standing distance. The palette is cool and atmospheric. Pale sky-blue and cerulean hold the body of the canvas; against this cool ground, vertical and diagonal palette-knife sweeps in emerald, forest-green, and red cross at multiple angles. A red column rises through the center-left of the painting — the warmest event in the picture, holding the chromatic counterweight to the cool body. Pockets of chartreuse and pale-yellow press through at the upper-left where the knife has cut to brighter underpainting. Pale grey-violet sweeps cross the upper edge with horizontal motion. The alphanumeric title (V5SL#CB) is Bertermann's serial notation for his abstract works. At 200 × 200 cm the serial code does additional work: the painting refuses subject even at the scale where subject-painting traditionally asserts itself. V5SL#CB belongs to a 2021 cycle in which Bertermann pushed his sedimentary practice to monumental scale, testing whether the method's intimate gestural register could sustain itself at twice the standard working area.

Is V5SL#CB AI-generated?

No. V5SL#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.

V5SL#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

V5SL#CB (2021) — 200 × 200 cm | 79 × 79 in

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

V5SL#CB, 2021, 200 × 200 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

V5SL#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — V5SL#CB (2021), 200 x 200 cm