Is HD39#CB available for purchase?

HD39#CB has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of HD39#CB?

HD39#CB (2024) measures 200 × 200 cm and was created in Oil 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 HD39#CB about?

HD39#CB is the largest square-format work in Claus Bertermann's current abstract series, measuring 200 × 200 cm. A square canvas at this scale is an unusual choice in contemporary painting — it refuses the conventions of landscape (horizontal) and portrait (vertical), confronting the viewer with a format that has no default orientation, no up or down in the natural world. The eye has nowhere prescribed to begin. The work belongs to Bertermann's coded abstract series, in which paintings are identified by alphanumeric sequences rather than descriptive titles. This is a deliberate positioning: the paintings resist the literary, the anecdotal, the biographical. They are events in paint, not illustrations of ideas. The code HD39#CB functions as a serial identifier within a body of work that spans nearly three decades and approximately 900 sold pieces — it is an archival notation, not a name. At 200 × 200 cm, HD39#CB occupies a room differently than a rectangular canvas. Its gravitational pull is central — it does not direct the gaze horizontally or vertically but holds it. The sedimentary layers accumulated across its surface create a topographical quality that becomes more apparent as the viewer moves closer: what reads as a unified field at distance resolves into a complex stratigraphy of color, each layer a record of a specific painting session, a specific moment of decision. Bertermann describes his abstract practice as a physical dialogue between intention and material resistance. On a surface this large, that dialogue becomes amplified — every scraping motion covers significant territory, every commitment of the palette knife is irreversible and immediately legible across a wide field.

Is HD39#CB AI-generated?

No. HD39#CB is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Oil 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.

HD39#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

HD39#CB (2024) — 200 × 200 cm | 79 × 79 in

Oil on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

HD39#CB, 2024 — detail 5 | Claus Bertermann

HD39#CB, 2024, 200 × 200 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

HD39#CB, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — HD39#CB (2024), 200 x 200 cm