Is Brooklyn Clash available for purchase?

Brooklyn Clash has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Brooklyn Clash?

Brooklyn Clash (2024) measures 160 × 300 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick 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 Brooklyn Clash about?

Brooklyn Clash is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann whose title invokes one of the most symbolically loaded urban territories in contemporary culture. Brooklyn — the New York borough that became, over the course of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the global shorthand for creative density, gentrification, cultural collision, and the productive friction of competing communities — is named here not as a location but as a condition. A "clash" in Brooklyn is not simply a conflict between two parties. It is a collision of histories, of immigrant waves, of economic forces, of artistic movements, of languages and foods and architectures layered over each other in the way that Bertermann layers paint: each new addition pressing against and partially obscuring what came before, each layer leaving traces of its existence even as it is covered by the next. The title Brooklyn Clash thus connects to Bertermann's broader sensibility about accumulation and tension — the same sensibility that drives his abstract sedimentary painting, translated here into a figurative and urban register. The figures in the painting are caught in this moment of productive collision: not destroyed by it, but defined by it. Bertermann's flat paint-roller background and gestural oil-stick figures give Brooklyn Clash the quality of a street image: something seen quickly, in passing, at the edge of legibility — the way one registers figures on a crowded urban street before the detail resolves.

Is Brooklyn Clash AI-generated?

No. Brooklyn Clash is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick 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.

Brooklyn Clash | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Brooklyn Clash (2024), 160 x 300 cm

160 × 300 cm — 63 × 118 in

Brooklyn Clash, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Brooklyn Clash, 2024, 160 × 300 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann