How much does Nocturne cost?

Nocturne (2026) is priced at $33,800 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 Nocturne?

Nocturne (2026) measures 150 × 200 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 Nocturne about?

Nocturne (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 150 × 200 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work presents a condition rather than a narrative: two people asleep in the same bed, seen from slightly above, their heads together on a large blue pillow at the right of the canvas. Somewhere in the night the two faces have drifted so close that the painting renders them almost as one repeated face — the same closed eyes, the same yellow light on the skin, the same small red mouth. A long rope of red hair runs down across the blanket, and where it crosses the orange it can no longer be told apart from a hand resting there. Nobody in the room is awake. The tenderness the picture shows is the kind neither sleeper will ever witness; only the viewer does. For this work, part of his 2026 figurative series, Claus Bertermann separates the two operations that make the picture. The ground is painted first, in coarse, broad brushstrokes that keep the movement of the arm visible: the orange mass of the blanket, the blue pillow, the magenta, green and cobalt wall and the pale lilac floor. The drawing comes afterwards and lies on top of that painted ground — the oil stick sets the violet-blue iron bed frame with its scrolls and curls, both sleeping faces and their closed eyes, the red strands of hair and the green and crimson lines that cross the blanket. The drawn line does not conform to the field beneath it; it cuts across it and keeps its independence. Unlike his abstract works, nothing here is scraped back — the image is built forward: coarse painted ground below, decisive drawn contour above. The composition is built on a long diagonal: the heads sit high at the right, the blanket spreads to the left and down across the canvas, and the iron frame arches over the upper part of the picture like a bracket. The faces are painted in cadmium and lemon yellow with orange passages, their eyes, brows and shadows drawn in blue. The blanket is orange and vermilion, crossed by green, red and dark crimson strokes and a small violet scribble at its centre. The background moves from a magenta, red and orange field at the upper left through a green passage at the top to deep cobalt and turquoise at the upper right; a pale blue field sits at the lower left and a lilac and pink floor runs along the lower edge, with short black strokes beneath the bed. A night scene is expected to be dark and hushed; here the most saturated colour sits exactly where the sleepers are least conscious. 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, Nocturne reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of closeness, attention and shared space — a museum-scale bedroom picture about the intimacy two people only reach when they have stopped performing for each other.

Is Nocturne AI-generated?

No. Nocturne 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.

Nocturne | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

Nocturne (2026) — 150 × 200 cm | 59 × 79 in

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

Nocturne, 2026 — detail 10 | Claus Bertermann

Nocturne, 2026, 150 × 200 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Nocturne, 2026 — detail 11 | Claus Bertermann

Nocturne | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Nocturne (2026), 150 x 200 cm