Is The Committee Chairman available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Committee Chairman?

The Committee Chairman (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 Committee Chairman about?

The Committee Chairman is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that belongs to his sustained investigation of institutional power and its human embodiment. The committee chairman is a figure of process rather than spectacle: not the elected leader, not the general, not the king — but the person who runs the meeting, controls the agenda, and determines what is discussed and what is not. This is a specific and underrepresented form of power in the history of figurative painting. The great traditions of portraiture address kings, merchants, generals, and saints. The committee chairman is none of these — and yet the committee chairman, in the age of institutional governance, exercises more practical influence over more daily decisions than any of the classic portrait subjects. Bertermann's choice to monumentalize this figure — to give it the full treatment of a large-format figurative painting — is itself an argument. It says: this person matters. The flat, graphic quality of the paint-roller background and the gestural oil-stick figure do not flatter or mythologize; they identify. The committee chairman is here, on this wall, taking up this much space. The work fits within a broader series that includes The Judge, The Censor, The Beadle, The Executor, The Lawmaker — a systematic inventory of institutional authority in its many forms, rendered consistently in the most anti-institutional painting technique Bertermann could devise.

Is The Committee Chairman AI-generated?

No. The Committee Chairman 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 Committee Chairman | Figurative Works

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

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

The Committee Chairman, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

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

The Committee Chairman | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann