Is The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand available for purchase?

The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand?

The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand (2024) measures 160 × 310 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil pastel 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 Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand about?

The Winner Takes It All — The Bitcoin Hand is one of the most expansive works in Claus Bertermann's figurative series, measuring 160 × 310 cm — a scale that demands an entire wall and an architectural relationship with the space it occupies. At this size, the painting ceases to be a picture and becomes an environment. The title operates on two registers simultaneously. "The Winner Takes It All" references the ABBA song of 1980 — a lyric about the brutal arithmetic of victory and loss, about the one who gains everything and the one who is left with nothing. Grafted onto this is "The Bitcoin Hand" — a specific gesture from the lexicon of cryptocurrency culture, in which the hand that holds and does not sell is valorized as the ultimate expression of conviction over doubt. The painting thus stages a collision between two eras of winner-take-all logic: the pop cultural late 20th century and the speculative early 21st. The "winner" is not simply a biographical figure but an archetype — the one who bet correctly, held the position, absorbed the losses, and emerged on the right side of a zero-sum moment. At 160 × 310 cm, the central figure's presence is near-physical. Bertermann's characteristic technique — paint roller for the flat, graphic background, oil pastels for the drawn figural elements — gives the work a poster-like directness entirely appropriate to its subject. Winner-take-all culture is inherently a culture of the large, the legible, and the declarative. This painting speaks that language without irony.

Is The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand AI-generated?

No. The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil pastel 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 Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand | Figurative Works

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand (2024), 160 x 310 cm

160 × 310 cm — 63 × 122 in

The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand, 2024 — detail 6 | Claus Bertermann

The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand, 2024, 160 × 310 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

The Winner takes it all - The Bitcoin Hand, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann