Is The Censor available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Censor?

The Censor (2023) measures 210 × 160 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez).

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 Censor about?

The Censor is a large figurative painting (210 × 160 cm) created in 2023 by Claus Bertermann, based on a sketch by Asturian poet Marcelino Fernández Suárez. It is one of the few works in Bertermann's figurative series that originates outside his own immediate visual observation — and one of the most politically charged. A censor is a figure of power defined by absence: what the censor does is remove, suppress, and redact. The censor's authority is exercised through the negative — the deleted sentence, the blacked-out paragraph, the image that does not appear. In this sense, The Censor is a painting about the relationship between image and its suppression — an inherently paradoxical subject for a visual artist, since the painting itself is an act of showing what censorship seeks to hide. Fernández Suárez is a poet whose work is rooted in the linguistic and historical textures of Asturias — the region where Bertermann lives and works. The collaboration across media (poem-sketch to painting) introduces a translation layer: the original source is linguistic and intimate, Bertermann's realization is monumental and public. The poem becomes a body; the private observation becomes a figure on a 210 × 160 cm canvas. Bertermann's technical approach — flat paint-roller background, oil stick figure — gives The Censor the quality of a warning sign or a poster: something designed to be seen at a distance and understood immediately. The figure of the censor, in this visual language, is legible before it is analyzed.

Is The Censor AI-generated?

No. The Censor is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez). 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 Censor | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Censor (2023), 210 x 160 cm

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

The Censor, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

The Censor, 2023, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann