Is Laureas available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of Laureas?

Laureas (2024) measures 200 × 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.

What is Laureas about?

Laureas is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann whose title reaches into the vocabulary of classical antiquity. The laurel wreath — corona laurea in Latin — was the symbol of victory, achievement, and divine favor in Greek and Roman culture: worn by the triumphant general, the Olympic athlete, the honored poet, and eventually the Roman emperor. "Laureas" names the one who wears the laurel; it is the victor crowned. The laurel tradition persists in contemporary language: "to rest on one's laurels," "Nobel laureate," "poet laureate" — the vocabulary of recognized achievement is still rooted in the ancient image of the leaf crown. Bertermann's Laureas brings this classical resonance into a distinctly contemporary visual language: the paint-roller background and oil-stick figure are as far as possible from the marble busts and triumphal paintings in which the laurea-crowned figure traditionally appears. This visual and temporal collision — ancient title, contemporary technique — is consistent with Bertermann's broader practice in the figurative series of placing archetypal figures (judge, censor, scribe) into the graphic, immediate visual language of the poster and the sign. Laureas is the laurea-crowned figure translated out of marble and into oil stick; out of eternity and into the present.

Is Laureas AI-generated?

No. Laureas 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.

Laureas | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

Laureas (2024) — 200 × 160 cm | 79 × 63 in

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

Laureas, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Laureas, 2024, 200 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Laureas (2024), 200 x 160 cm