Is The Beadle available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Beadle?

The Beadle (2024) measures 210 × 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.

What is The Beadle about?

The Beadle is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann whose title reaches back into the lexicon of English institutional life. A beadle — the word derives from Old English bydel, a herald or messenger — is a minor official of a church, university, or civic body: the person who carries the ceremonial mace, maintains order at official functions, and enforces the rules of the institution on its behalf. Not the judge, not the lawmaker, but the enforcer of decorum; not the authority itself, but its visible instrument. Bertermann's interest in beadle-level authority is an extension of the series logic that includes The Committee Chairman, The Executor, and The Lawmaker: a systematic attention to the full hierarchy of institutional power, not just its apex. The beadle is interesting precisely because of the gap between the importance assigned to the role (the mace, the uniform, the ceremony) and the actual power exercised. It is authority as performance, as costume, as social theatre. In Bertermann's visual language — paint roller background, oil-stick figure — this performative quality is amplified. The figure is there, identified, present. But the flatness of the technical approach refuses to fill in the psychological depth that the institutional uniform implies. The beadle is the costume without the person inside it.

Is The Beadle AI-generated?

No. The Beadle 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.

The Beadle | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Beadle (2024), 210 x 160 cm

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

The Beadle, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

The Beadle, 2024, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann