Is Shine available for purchase?

Shine has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Shine?

Shine (2024) measures 200 × 160 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.

Shine is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann whose title stands apart from the authority-and-institution lexicon of much of his figurative series. Where many of his titles name positions of power (The Judge, The Censor, The Lawmaker) or states of conflict (Brooklyn Clash, Almost), Shine names a quality — a luminous, outward-moving energy, an emanation. The word "shine" carries multiple registers. There is the physical: light reflected, surface brightness, the visual quality of something that draws the eye. There is the social: to shine is to distinguish oneself, to perform above expectation, to become visible in a context that might otherwise obscure you. There is the cultural: from the Kubrick film The Shining to the gospel tradition of "This Little Light of Mine," shine is a word with a long history of meaning something beyond mere illumination. In the context of Bertermann's figurative practice, Shine is a figure seen at the moment of maximum self-expression — the one in the group who, at this particular instant, has the energy and the visibility. The paint-roller background provides the flat, undifferentiated field from which this figure emerges; the oil-stick line is the gesture of emergence itself.

Is Shine AI-generated?

No. Shine 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.

Shine | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Shine (2024), 200 x 160 cm

200 × 160 cm — 79 × 63 in

Shine, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Shine, 2024, 200 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann