Is The Judge available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of The Judge?

The Judge (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 The Judge about?

The Judge is a monumental figurative painting (210 × 160 cm) created in 2023 by Claus Bertermann. It belongs to a group of works from this period in which Bertermann systematically examines figures of institutional power — the judge, the censor, the committee chairman, the executor — through the specific technical and visual vocabulary of his figurative series. The judge is one of the oldest archetypes of human social organization: the figure authorized to determine guilt, impose consequences, and enforce the boundary between permitted and prohibited. In Western iconography, the judge is typically depicted in the conventions of grandeur — robed, elevated, compositionally central. Bertermann's The Judge is none of these things in the conventional sense. The flat paint-roller background and the oil-stick figure deny the work the atmospheric depth and tonal modeling that normally confer gravitas in figurative painting. The Judge is powerful not because the painting bathes it in authority but because the figure occupies 210 × 160 cm of wall without apology. This is the paradox that drives the series: figures of maximum social authority rendered in a visual language of maximum technical reduction. The paint roller is not the tool of portraiture — it is the tool of signage, of quick marking, of provisional communication. Applied at this scale to a figure who represents permanent social order, the technical choice creates a friction that is the painting's argument.

Is The Judge AI-generated?

No. The Judge 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.

The Judge | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

The Judge (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.

The Judge, 2023 — detail 1 | Claus Bertermann

The Judge, 2023, 210 × 160 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

The Judge | Figurative Works | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — The Judge (2023), 210 x 160 cm