Is GOAT available for purchase?

GOAT has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of GOAT?

GOAT (2024) measures 160 × 160 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick 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.

GOAT is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that operates simultaneously on two semantic registers: the animal (goat: stubborn, independent, mountain-terrain-adapted, associated with transgression, the scapegoat, Pan, the devil) and the contemporary acronym (GOAT: Greatest Of All Time — the superlative designation applied in sports culture to figures like Muhammad Ali, Michael Jordan, Lionel Messi). The tension between these two meanings is generative. The animal goat is one of the oldest symbols in European culture — it appears in biblical scapegoat ritual, in Greek myth, in the visual lexicon of sin and transgression. It is the animal that eats everything, climbs where others cannot, survives where others fail. The GOAT of contemporary sports culture shares some of this: it, too, is the one who goes higher, lasts longer, achieves what others said was impossible. What separates Bertermann's GOAT from either the biblical goat or the sports acronym is the visual mode: rendered in oil stick over a paint-roller background, the figure has neither the gravitas of sacred iconography nor the photographic finish of contemporary sports celebrity culture. It is a drawn presence — immediate, gestural, present but unresolved. Is this figure the animal or the champion? The scapegoat or the Greatest? The painting, true to Bertermann's practice, does not answer.

Is GOAT AI-generated?

No. GOAT is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick 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.

GOAT | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

GOAT (2024) — 160 × 160 cm | 63 × 63 in

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

GOAT, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

GOAT, 2024, 160 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

GOAT | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — GOAT (2024), 160 x 160 cm