How much does Madonnina cost?

Madonnina (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 Madonnina?

Madonnina (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 Madonnina about?

Madonnina (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 devotional figure of the kind found in roadside niches across Italy, the small painted Madonna that gives the picture its diminutive title. In life such a figure is the length of a forearm, kept in a wall shrine, repainted by hand and tended by people nobody ever sees. Here she is given the full width of a museum-scale canvas. The reversal of scale is the subject. She sits frontally and immovably, her mantle opening across almost the entire picture, while behind her two dark arched forms recede — the niche she came from, now too small to hold her. At the centre of all that released colour her hands stay quietly folded, one over the other: the one still point in a painting where everything else has been let loose. For this work, part of his 2026 expressionist series, Claus Bertermann paints the entire field wet-in-wet with large brushes — mantle, dress and the loose white-and-grey ground 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 yellow, grey and white lines that tear down through the red mantle and drip, the black contour of the folded hands, the fine white scrawl looping across the skirt, the 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 single seated female figure filling almost the whole canvas. Her pale face carries violet-outlined eyes, dark violet lips and green and red shadow in the cheeks; long orange-red hair falls on both sides, and above her head a broad brim reads equally as a wide hat and as a halo, painted in concentric bands of red, magenta, green and blue. A vermilion mantle opens from her shoulders across the full width of the picture; beneath it a green dress runs in long vertical strokes scattered with red and white floral marks. A mass of pink, mauve and crimson blooms breaks out of the skirt at the lower right. The ground behind stays largely white and grey, with two dark arched forms at the upper left and upper right, drawn over with black grid lines and hung with red. 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, Madonnina reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of devotion, scale and the quiet endurance of small things — a museum-scale work that treats a piece of roadside folk faith with the seriousness usually reserved for the altarpiece.

Is Madonnina AI-generated?

No. Madonnina 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.

Madonnina | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

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

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

Madonnina, 2026 — detail 8 | Claus Bertermann

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

Madonnina, 2026 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Madonnina (2026), 130 x 180 cm