How much does Cosplay Royale cost?

Cosplay Royale (2026) is priced at $26 USD. The work is currently available for acquisition directly from the studio, through partner galleries, or via 1stDibs.

What are the dimensions and medium of Cosplay Royale?

Cosplay Royale (2026) measures 130 × 180 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 Cosplay Royale about?

Cosplay Royale (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 130 × 180 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work presents a woman in full medieval court dress — wide ruff, vast puffed sleeves, laced bodice, chalk-white face — who is almost certainly not from the Middle Ages. She has propped her cheek against her hand in the oldest pose in Western portraiture, the melancholic sovereign weighed down by the crown, and her eyes have drifted sideways out of the role entirely. Rather than telling a story, the painting fixes a condition: the moment a costume is perfect and the person inside it has stopped performing. For his figurative work, Claus Bertermann builds the image forward rather than scraping it back. Broad, gestural fields of acrylic are laid down fast and loose, and the figure, ruff, sleeves and lacing are then drawn directly over the bright ground in oil stick. The contour lines keep their independence from the painted surface — they sit on top of it, cutting through the colour rather than conforming to it. This separation of assertive drawing from raw painterly field sets structure against exposure, and every surface irregularity is intentional and integral to the artist's process. The composition is a wide half-length portrait that fills almost the whole canvas. Two enormous rounded sleeves in flat, brilliant orange flank the figure, ribbed with violet oil-stick lines that read as seams and padding; a shovel-shaped ruff in white and pale lavender frames the mint-white face, with turquoise-ringed eyes and a vivid orange mouth. White and lilac cord loops across the orange bodice as cross-lacing. Behind her there is no throne, no drapery and no coat of arms — only near-black, broken by a green sweep at the upper right and long red-orange runs of paint at both edges. Perspective and anatomy are intentionally distorted, prioritising emotional weight over realism. Signed by the artist on the front and back, Cosplay Royale turns the visual language of the historical state portrait against itself — a museum-scale figurative work in Bertermann's highest-key colour, where the costume does all the work the palace used to do, and no longer proves anything.

Is Cosplay Royale AI-generated?

No. Cosplay Royale 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.

Cosplay Royale | Figurative Works

Cosplay Royale (2026) — 130 × 180 cm | 51 × 71 in

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

Cosplay Royale, 2026 — detail 14 | Claus Bertermann

Cosplay Royale, 2026, 130 × 180 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Cosplay Royale, 2026 — detail 2 | Claus Bertermann

Cosplay Royale | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Cosplay Royale (2026), 130 x 180 cm