Is The Executor available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Executor?

The Executor (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 Executor about?

The Executor is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that occupies a specific position in his institutional authority series: this is the figure at the end of the chain of command, the one who actually does what has been decided. Where the lawmaker creates the rule and the judge interprets it, the executor enacts it. Without the executor, the entire system of institutional authority is theoretical. The word "executor" carries two distinct meanings in common use. In legal contexts, the executor of an estate is the person appointed to carry out the terms of a will — to distribute property, settle accounts, honor the wishes of the deceased. In historical contexts, the executor was the person who carried out death sentences. Both meanings share the same structural position: the executor is the person who makes real what has been decreed. In both cases, the executor is simultaneously powerful and constrained. The power is real: the executor acts, changes things, makes the abstract concrete. The constraint is equally real: the executor acts not on their own authority but on behalf of a decision made elsewhere. This is the philosophical tension that interests Bertermann — the figure who is the fulcrum of power without being its source. Rendered in paint roller and oil stick at significant scale, The Executor is present in the way that executors always must be: physically, inescapably, as a body that acts in the world.

Is The Executor AI-generated?

No. The Executor 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 Executor | Figurative Works

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

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

The Executor, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

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