Is Formentera 01 available for purchase?

Formentera 01 is currently reserved. For inquiries about this work or similar available paintings, please contact the studio at bertermann.art/contact.

What are the dimensions and medium of Formentera 01?

Formentera 01 (2026) measures 210 × 160 cm and was created in Acrylic 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 Formentera 01 about?

Formentera 01 (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic on canvas, 210 × 160 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. It is an early work of the new wet-in-wet series begun with Grimaud. The painting holds a single, unremarkable moment: a lone swimmer crossing a small turquoise bay near Es Caló on the island of Formentera. Nothing dramatic happens — a body moving through clear water on an ordinary summer afternoon. Rather than telling a story, it fixes a condition: the quiet, almost weightless pleasure of being in the sea, and the sense that an entirely undramatic instant can carry as much weight as any grand subject. The series this belongs to is built on exactly that wager — that the experienced moment does not have to be special to become a special moment. Like the rest of the series, Formentera 01 is painted wet-in-wet with large brushes, the colours bleeding and merging while the paint is still live. Water, rock, foliage and figure are laid down in a single forward pass, so that the swimmer's body half-dissolves into the sea around her and the boundary between skin and water keeps shifting. The approach is openly indebted to German Expressionism — perspective loosened, colour pushed past description into pure sensation — and to the conviction that a fluid, fast-moving surface can hold a feeling more honestly than careful finish. The composition looks down onto the water from above. A swimmer with dark hair, her face caught in a few decisive strokes, moves through the centre of the canvas, her shoulders and torso merging into bands of teal, mint, cobalt and deep navy, flecked with white foam. Rocks in ochre, tan and warm brown frame the bay at the lower edge and upper right, threaded with dark-green coastal vegetation and touches of acid yellow and violet. Perspective and anatomy are intentionally loosened, prioritising the sensation of light on moving water over literal description. Signed by the artist on the front and back, Formentera 01 opens a travel series drawn from the places Claus Bertermann and his wife return to year after year, where the smallest, most ordinary scenes of everyday life are treated as worth painting at museum scale.

Is Formentera 01 AI-generated?

No. Formentera 01 is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic 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.

Formentera 01 | Figurative Works

Formentera 01 (2026) — 210 × 160 cm | 83 × 63 in

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

Formentera 01, 2026 — detail 8 | Claus Bertermann

Formentera 01, 2026, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Formentera 01, 2026 — detail 9 | Claus Bertermann

Formentera 01 | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Formentera 01 (2026), 210 x 160 cm