Is Pierre and The Great Cosmo available for purchase?

Pierre and The Great Cosmo has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Pierre and The Great Cosmo?

Pierre and The Great Cosmo (2024) measures 160 × 260 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 Pierre and The Great Cosmo about?

Pierre and The Great Cosmo is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann in which two named characters inhabit the same canvas. The naming is unusual within the figurative series — most of Bertermann's titles identify a type (the judge, the censor, the executor) rather than a specific named individual. Pierre and The Great Cosmo introduces something more intimate and more ambiguous: two names that carry cultural weight without anchoring the painting to a biography. Pierre is the quintessential French name — literary, philosophical, slightly anachronistic in an English-speaking context (think Tolstoy's Pierre Bezukhov, the great bumbling seeker of meaning in War and Peace). The Great Cosmo is something else entirely: a name with the quality of a stage name, a pseudonym, a self-projection. "The Great" signals performance and self-aggrandizement; "Cosmo" suggests worldliness, travel, the cosmos itself. The dynamic between these two named figures — the literary and the theatrical, the earnest seeker and the great performer — is the painting's subject. Whether they are friends, rivals, a double portrait of the same person in different modes, or strangers who happen to share a canvas, the work does not specify. The title gives us two characters; the painting gives us the space between them. Bertermann's paint-roller background and oil-stick figures suit this ambiguity precisely: the figures are present without being fixed, named without being identified.

Is Pierre and The Great Cosmo AI-generated?

No. Pierre and The Great Cosmo 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.

Pierre and The Great Cosmo | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Pierre and The Great Cosmo (2024), 160 x 260 cm

160 × 260 cm — 63 × 102 in

Pierre and The Great Cosmo, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Pierre and The Great Cosmo, 2024, 160 × 260 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Pierre and The Great Cosmo | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann