Is The Scribe available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Scribe?

The Scribe (2023) 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 Scribe about?

The Scribe is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that reaches back to one of the oldest professional roles in human civilization. Before printing, before widespread literacy, before digital records, the scribe was the person who held language in material form — who translated the spoken word, the oral command, the fleeting memory into marks on papyrus, parchment, or stone that would survive the speaker. The scribe is also a figure of mediation and selection: the scribe decides what to record and how to record it. The written record is never a neutral transcript; it carries the scribe's presence in every choice of emphasis, abbreviation, and omission. In this sense, the scribe and the painter have something fundamental in common: both are figures who translate experience into a material record, and both carry their own presence into that translation whether they intend to or not. Bertermann's paint-roller background and oil-stick figure place The Scribe in the visual vocabulary of the poster and the sign rather than the illuminated manuscript. The ancient figure is rendered in the most contemporary of technical approaches: flat, immediate, gestural. The scribe who recorded by hand onto parchment becomes the figure drawn by hand onto a roller-applied canvas. The tools change; the function — recording, bearing witness, making permanent — remains.

Is The Scribe AI-generated?

No. The Scribe 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 Scribe | Figurative Works

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

210 × 160 cm — 83 × 63 in

The Scribe, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

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

The Scribe | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann