How much does Le Café cost?

Le Café (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 Le Café?

Le Café (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 Le Café about?

Le Café (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 condition rather than a narrative: a young man alone at a café table, chin propped on the back of his hand, the small cup in front of him almost finished. The posture belongs to the visual grammar of waiting, and from outside the frame that is exactly what it reads as — a man who has been stood up. The painting argues otherwise. He came early on purpose, something arrived at around the third sip, and he is holding still so as not to lose it. Thinking and waiting look identical from the outside; only the colour gives him away. Nothing in this room behaves like disappointment. For this work, part of his 2026 expressionist series, Claus Bertermann paints the entire field wet-in-wet with large brushes — the café interior, the cobalt jacket, the vermilion table top and the broad stripe of gold light laid down while the paint is still live, so colours bleed and merge and boundaries dissolve. On top of this fluid ground the oil stick does the drawing: the blue contour of the hands and the open collar, the yellow and blue rims of cup, saucer and jug, the black lines that hold the furniture in place, the green signature at the lower right. The image is built forward, not scraped back — volatile colour below, decisive drawn line above. The composition centres on a half-length young man seated behind an orange-red table, frontal and slightly left of centre. His hair is a mass of red-brown and crimson loops; the face is pale yellow with a violet-blue shadow down one side, blue-drawn brows and eyes, a red mouth and a warm red patch on the cheek. A deep cobalt and teal jacket opens over a pale yellow collar. One elbow rests on the table with the chin against the back of the hand, while the other arm crosses the picture and the open hand lies flat, its fingers described in blue line. Before him stand a white cup with a yellow interior on a blue-rimmed saucer, a smaller white bowl and a white jug banded in magenta. Behind him the café is built from blue, teal, magenta and orange: a black and yellow form reads as a hanging lamp above a pink counter, a green table top stands on dark legs at the right, and a stripe of gold and ochre light crosses the room to land on a single shoulder. Anatomy and perspective are intentionally simplified and distorted, prioritising emotional weight over realism. All surface irregularities are intentional and integral to the artist's process. Signed by the artist on the front and back, Le Café reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of solitude, attention and everyday states of mind — a museum-scale work that takes the most melancholic composition in modern painting and turns it toward contentment.

Is Le Café AI-generated?

No. Le Café 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.

Le Café | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

Le Café (2026) — 130 × 180 cm | 51 × 71 in

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

Le Café, 2026 — detail 9 | Claus Bertermann

Le Café, 2026, 130 × 180 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Le Café, 2026 — detail 10 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Le Café (2026), 130 x 180 cm