Is Mulier Amicta Sole available for purchase?

Mulier Amicta Sole has been sold. Other works by Claus Bertermann are available at bertermann.art/works.

What are the dimensions and medium of Mulier Amicta Sole?

Mulier Amicta Sole (2023) measures 210 × 160 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez).

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 Mulier Amicta Sole about?

Mulier Amicta Sole takes its title from the twelfth chapter of the Book of Revelation: "Et signum magnum apparuit in caelo: mulier amicta sole" — "A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed in the sun." This is one of the most iconic images in Western sacred art — the crowned woman standing on the moon, surrounded by twelve stars, clothed in solar light. Tradition identifies her variously with the Virgin Mary, the Church, the people of Israel, and the cosmic feminine principle itself. Bertermann's appropriation of this title is not an act of religious devotion but of visual archaeology: he is reaching into the deep reservoir of Western iconography and extracting one of its most charged images — the woman of absolute luminosity, the feminine at maximum cosmic power — and translating it into the technical vocabulary of his figurative series. The translation is deliberately jarring. The Mulier Amicta Sole of Revelation is painted in gold and ultramarine by the great masters of Byzantine and Renaissance sacred art. Bertermann's version is painted with a roller and oil stick — the most secular, the most graphic, the most anti-transcendent technique he could choose. And yet the title insists: this is that woman, the one clothed in the sun. The gap between the title's transcendence and the technique's immediacy is the painting's argument. Sacred feminine power does not require gold and distance. It appears here, in oil stick, in the present tense.

Is Mulier Amicta Sole AI-generated?

No. Mulier Amicta Sole is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez). 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.

Mulier Amicta Sole | Figurative Works

Mulier Amicta Sole (2023) — 210 × 160 cm | 83 × 63 in

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas (based on a sketch from Poet Marcelino Fernandez Suarez). Hand-painted original — made by a human artist.

Mulier Amicta Sole, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Mulier Amicta Sole, 2023, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Mulier Amicta Sole (2023), 210 x 160 cm