Is Elisabeth in Cinquecento available for purchase?

Elisabeth in Cinquecento has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Elisabeth in Cinquecento?

Elisabeth in Cinquecento (2026) measures 130 × 180 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil crayon 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 Elisabeth in Cinquecento about?

Elisabeth in Cinquecento is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that performs a specific kind of temporal collision: the title introduces a named contemporary figure (Elisabeth) into the art-historical frame of the Cinquecento — the Italian 16th century, the century of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, of monumental figurative painting and idealized human form. The collision is the point. Bertermann's figurative technique is the formal opposite of Cinquecento painting: where the Renaissance masters built their figures through tonal modeling, precise anatomical drawing, and layered glazes of paint, Bertermann applies the background with a paint roller — flat, graphic, immediate — and draws his figures in oil crayon without modeling, depth, or anatomical precision. The silhouette is the figure; the line is the entirety of the form. Elisabeth in Cinquecento places a contemporary presence — named, specific — within a frame that is art-historically loaded. The effect is not reverence or irony but something more complex: an acknowledgment that figurative painting always operates in relation to its history, while insisting that this relationship can be articulated through radical formal simplicity rather than learned mimicry. The name Elisabeth carries its own historical weight — the Tudor queens, the Habsburg empresses, the long European tradition of portraiture in which "Elisabeth" names the powerful, the painted, the posed. Bertermann's Elisabeth is painted, but painted differently: not preserved in oil glaze and formal pose but traced in crayon against a roller-applied ground, present without being fixed.

Is Elisabeth in Cinquecento AI-generated?

No. Elisabeth in Cinquecento is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil crayon 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.

Elisabeth in Cinquecento | Figurative Works

Elisabeth in Cinquecento (2026) — 130 × 180 cm | 51 × 71 in

Acrylic and oil crayon on canvas. Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

Elisabeth in Cinquecento, 2026 — detail 11 | Claus Bertermann

Elisabeth in Cinquecento, 2026, 130 × 180 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Elisabeth in Cinquecento, 2026 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Elisabeth in Cinquecento | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Elisabeth in Cinquecento (2026), 130 x 180 cm