How much does Roma 1 cost?

Roma 1 (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 Roma 1?

Roma 1 (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 Roma 1 about?

Roma 1 (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 woman on a scooter in a Roman street, caught in the two or three seconds in which she notices she is being watched. The scooter comes head-on, orange and enormous, pushed so far forward that its front wheel has already left the picture. Her hands stay on the bars and her shoulders are still travelling; only the face has stopped, turned squarely out of the canvas, calm and entirely unbothered. Everything around her keeps moving — the façades dissolved into vertical streaks, the air behind her shoulders torn into ribbons — while one still face looks back. It is the ordinary Roman encounter: complete, unrepeatable, over in a moment, and here held for as long as the wall stands. Roma 1 is the daylight half of a pair with Roma 2, the same city after dark; each canvas stands on its own. For this work, part of his 2026 expressionist series, Claus Bertermann paints the entire field wet-in-wet with large brushes — façades, road, jacket and the restless background 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 heavy black contour describing the scooter body and headlamp, the scribbled window grids in the buildings, the drawn folds of the jacket, the signature in red at the lower right. The image is built forward, not scraped back — volatile colour below, decisive drawn line above. The composition is dominated by the scooter seen head-on in orange and cadmium yellow, filling the lower third of the canvas under heavy black drawn contour. The rider sits upright behind the handlebars, forearms drawn in green and black over red, her pale face modelled with pink and green, violet-outlined eyes, dark brows and violet lips, the gaze meeting the viewer directly. Short blue-black hair sits inside an orange and red hood that flares to the left; she wears a dark green and black jacket over a vermilion top. Behind her the street is built from broad vertical bands — a pale grey, pink and yellow façade at the left scribbled over with red and black window grids, a yellow and cream building at the right, a deep cobalt field crossed by a white diagonal behind her head. To the left the air breaks into long horizontal ribbons of green, red, turquoise and white. 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, Roma 1 reflects Claus Bertermann's ongoing exploration of presence, motion and the brief public encounter — a museum-scale work that takes the 2026 series out of the interior and into the street.

Is Roma 1 AI-generated?

No. Roma 1 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.

Roma 1 | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

Roma 1 (2026) — 130 × 180 cm | 51 × 71 in

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

Roma 1, 2026 — detail 8 | Claus Bertermann

Roma 1, 2026, 130 × 180 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Roma 1, 2026 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Roma 1 (2026), 130 x 180 cm