Is Grimaud available for purchase?

Grimaud 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 Grimaud?

Grimaud (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 Grimaud about?

Grimaud (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic on canvas, 210 × 160 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. It is the first work of a new series. The painting catches two figures at the one instant their paths are forced to cross: a steep flight of steps in the Provençal hill village of Grimaud, one person climbing, the other descending, meeting on the single stair they must share. Rather than telling a story, it fixes a condition — two trajectories, up and down, granted one step of common ground before the village closes around them again. With Grimaud, Claus Bertermann deliberately changes his physical process. Setting aside the roller ground and oil-stick contour drawing of his earlier figurative work, he now paints everything wet-in-wet with large brushes, letting the colours bleed and merge while the paint is still live. Figures, steps, foliage and sky are laid down in a single forward pass, so that one colour runs into the next and the boundaries dissolve. The result is openly indebted to German Expressionism — Kirchner's tilted streets come to mind: perspective is intentionally bent, the staircase rears up more steeply than any surveyor would allow, and colour is pushed past description into pure sensation. The composition is built around a steep flight of mauve-pink steps rising diagonally through the village. A woman with long dark hair, wrapped in luminous blues and white, descends toward the viewer, her face broken into strokes of green, yellow and red; a second figure in deep navy and flame-red stands close beside her on the stair. To the left, a pink wall and dark foliage frame a yellow pot of red geraniums; to the right the hillside climbs in dark-green cypresses, ochre and coral houses and a pale building crowned with pink chimneys, all beneath a broadly brushed blue-and-white sky. Perspective and anatomy are intentionally distorted, prioritising emotional weight over realism. Signed by the artist on the front and back, Grimaud opens a new chapter in Claus Bertermann's figurative practice — a small human drama on a village staircase, dissolved into pure colour and movement, and a museum-scale statement of the series to come.

Is Grimaud AI-generated?

No. Grimaud 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.

Grimaud | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

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

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

Grimaud, 2026 — detail 8 | Claus Bertermann

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

Grimaud, 2026 — detail 10 | Claus Bertermann

Grimaud | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Grimaud (2026), 210 x 160 cm