Is Serenith available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of Serenith?

Serenith (2024) measures 210 × 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 Serenith about?

Serenith is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann built around a name that does not quite exist in any language. "Serenity" is the English word for a state of calm, undisturbed peace — derived from the Latin serenus (clear, unclouded). "Serenith" is Bertermann's variation: a name-form, a proper noun, the name given to a person rather than the description of a state. This shift from quality to identity is significant. A painting titled Serenity would be describing a mood or an atmosphere. A painting titled Serenith is showing a person — someone who carries serenity as a name, who was given this quality at birth or who claimed it as a designation. The name implies that serenity is not an occasional state this figure enters but a fundamental aspect of identity. Within Bertermann's figurative series — which includes figures of power, authority, conflict, and institutional role — Serenith stands as the counter-figure: not the judge or the lawmaker, not the triumphantess or the winner, but the one who is simply, constitutively at peace. This is not passivity; in a series populated by figures of active social engagement, Serenith's serenity is itself a position, a choice, a form of presence. The paint-roller background and oil-stick figure render this state in a visual language that is immediate rather than atmospheric — no soft focus, no muted tones, no conventional visual representation of peace. Serenith is serenity as a drawn figure, present and direct.

Is Serenith AI-generated?

No. Serenith 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.

Serenith | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

Serenith (2024) — 210 × 160 cm | 83 × 63 in

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

Serenith, 2024 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

Serenith, 2024, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Serenith (2024), 210 x 160 cm