Is The Physicist available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Physicist?

The Physicist (2024) measures 160 × 150 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 Physicist about?

The Physicist is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that introduces the scientist into a series otherwise populated by figures of institutional authority (judges, censors, committee chairmen) and social power (the winner, the triumphantess, the peacelord). The physicist is a different kind of authority: one derived not from position, appointment, or social consensus, but from the capacity to describe how the physical world actually works. There is a connection — unspoken but structurally real — between physics and painting. Bertermann's abstract practice is built on physical processes: the viscosity of oil paint, the adhesion of layers, the resistance of the canvas to the palette knife, the relationship between gravity and the behavior of semi-cured material. These are not metaphors for physics — they are physics. The painter who works at Bertermann's level of material engagement is already working as a kind of applied physicist, attending to forces and resistances that most people never consciously register. The Physicist in Bertermann's figurative series is thus a figure of kinship: someone else who pays close attention to material reality, who measures the invisible and makes it legible. Where the painter records force in accumulated and scraped oil paint, the physicist records it in equations and experiments. The tools differ; the attentiveness is the same.

Is The Physicist AI-generated?

No. The Physicist 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 Physicist | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Physicist (2024), 160 x 150 cm

160 × 150 cm — 63 × 59 in

The Physicist, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

The Physicist, 2024, 160 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

The Physicist | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann