How much does VB30#CB cost?

VB30#CB (2025) is priced at $4,800 USD. The work is currently available for acquisition directly from the studio, through partner galleries, or via 1stDibs.

What are the dimensions and medium of VB30#CB?

VB30#CB (2025) measures 130 × 130 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 VB30#CB about?

VB30#CB is a square-format abstract oil painting (130 × 130 cm) completed in 2025 by Claus Bertermann. The square is a format that Bertermann returns to periodically in his abstract practice as a deliberate formal constraint — a shape that refuses hierarchy, that has no natural top or bottom in the way that a rectangular canvas implies. At 130 × 130 cm, VB30#CB is substantial but more concentrated than Bertermann's largest abstracts. The reduced footprint — relative to his 150 × 200 or 200 × 200 works — focuses the viewer's attention on the density of the surface rather than its expansive field. What is lost in scale is compensated by the intensity of the sedimentary accumulation: the same number of painting sessions, the same layering process, the same palette knife interventions, all compressed into a more concentrated field. VB30#CB was created in 2025, a year in which Bertermann pushed his abstract practice forward while simultaneously developing his new figurative series. The two disciplines inform each other: the physical directness of the figurative work — the paint roller, the oil crayon applied without hesitation — feeds back into the abstract practice, making the palette knife interventions in works like VB30#CB more committed and less tentative. The square format in VB30#CB also references a long tradition in abstraction from Malevich through Josef Albers to Gerhard Richter — a tradition that Bertermann engages with critically, deploying the square not as a conceptual gesture but as a material challenge.

Is VB30#CB AI-generated?

No. VB30#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.

VB30#CB | Abstract Works | Claus Bertermann

VB30#CB (2025) — 130 × 130 cm | 51 × 51 in

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

VB30#CB, 2025 — detail 5 | Claus Bertermann

VB30#CB, 2025, 130 × 130 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

VB30#CB, 2025 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — VB30#CB (2025), 130 x 130 cm