Is LILIUMS XL available for purchase?

LILIUMS XL 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 LILIUMS XL?

LILIUMS XL (2026) measures 150 × 150 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 LILIUMS XL about?

Liliums XL (2026) by Claus Bertermann is a large-format figurative painting — acrylic and oil stick on canvas, 150 × 150 cm, hand-painted, not AI-generated. The work takes the lily — the most over-painted flower in the history of art — and strips it of all ceremony. Rather than telling a narrative or arranging a tasteful still life, the painting presents the act of painting itself: the flower is only a pretext that lets the hand move. The botanical fact is the permission slip; what is recorded on the canvas is a sequence of fast, irreversible decisions. For his figurative works, Claus Bertermann deliberately shifts his physical painting process. Instead of traditional brushes, he applies the acrylic ground with a roller and wide brush, forcing broader arm movements and reducing fine control. This creates a raw, charged field that carries visible momentum and bodily rhythm. The blossoms and their contours are then drawn directly with oil stick — intuitively and independently from the painted ground. The lines do not conform to the surface beneath them; they cut across it, wandering off the edges of the petals they describe. Unlike his abstract works, Claus Bertermann does not scrape back layers here. The image is built forward: coarse acrylic application followed by decisive oil stick contours. The composition is dominated by large stylized lily blossoms in luminous orange and apricot, their star-shaped petals outlined in white, yellow and hot pink oil stick. A single commanding flower opens at the upper center against a thicket of vivid green foliage and a deep blue ground, while further blooms cluster against a lavender-pink mid-zone, with small orange bud-clusters and dark, drawn stems rising from an olive-green lower register. Long blue and violet drip-lines run downward through the flowers. Anatomy of the flower is intentionally simplified and flattened, prioritizing rhythm and color energy over botanical accuracy. Signed by the artist on the front and back, Liliums XL is one of two paintings made together on this subject — the concentrated, square companion to the panoramic Liliums XXL. A museum-scale work that balances exuberant color with the artist's central claim: it was never about the lilies.

Is LILIUMS XL AI-generated?

No. LILIUMS XL 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.

LILIUMS XL | Figurative Works

LILIUMS XL (2026) — 150 × 150 cm | 59 × 59 in

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

LILIUMS XL, 2026 — detail 7 | Claus Bertermann

LILIUMS XL, 2026, 150 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

LILIUMS XL, 2026 — detail 11 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — LILIUMS XL (2026), 150 x 150 cm