Is The Facilitator available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Facilitator?

The Facilitator (2026) measures 160 × 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 Facilitator about?

The Facilitator (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 160 × 160 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work shows a man seated in an open summer landscape, bent forward over the laces of his sneakers — and painted so large that the scenery barely reaches his shoulders. The clouds drift past him at chest height; the flowering meadows and the distant hills arrange themselves around his body like furniture. Rather than telling a story, the painting fixes a condition: the single unscheduled pause of the person who makes everything run for everyone else, caught doing the one small thing he only ever does for himself — and it is impossible to say whether he is arriving or leaving, because that is the question nobody ever asks him. For his figurative work, Claus Bertermann builds the image forward rather than scraping it back. Broad, gestural fields of acrylic are laid down fast and loose — the graded ultramarine-to-chartreuse sky, the emerald meadow, the drifts of pink flowers — and the figure is then drawn directly over the bright ground in oil stick. The contour lines keep their independence from the painted surface: they sit on top of it, cutting through the colour rather than conforming to it. This separation of assertive drawing from raw painterly field sets structure against exposure, and every surface irregularity is intentional and integral to the artist's process. The composition is square and monumental. The seated figure dominates the frame: dark green-black hair, a face painted meadow-green with its shadow side in blue, tired ultramarine eyes, red oil-stick marks on the forehead and a heavy coral-orange mouth. A flame-orange jacket hangs over his shoulders; around his neck and torso, broad silver-grey brushstrokes bundle into a thick wrap, flanked by rolled white-and-pink towels at both arms. One leg wears a black trouser over a white sock and a sneaker striped in yellow and blue; the other foot sits in a darker shoe whose laces remain a loose black scribble. Beneath him the ground glows warm orange; behind him the land drops away at the left into a rose-coloured fall, and the sky's mint-green clouds are streaked with pink and yellow. Perspective and scale are intentionally distorted, prioritising emotional weight over realism. Signed by the artist on the front and back, The Facilitator gives its subject the one thing he gives everyone else and never receives — undivided attention — a museum-scale figurative work in which, for once, the landscape is the background it always pretended he was.

Is The Facilitator AI-generated?

No. The Facilitator 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 Facilitator | Figurative Works

The Facilitator (2026) — 160 × 160 cm | 63 × 63 in

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

The Facilitator, 2026 — detail 13 | Claus Bertermann

The Facilitator, 2026, 160 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

The Facilitator, 2026 — detail 9 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Facilitator (2026), 160 x 160 cm