Is Virgen Extra available for purchase?

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

What are the dimensions and medium of Virgen Extra?

Virgen Extra (2026) measures 200 × 150 cm and was created in Acrylic and oil crayon 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 Virgen Extra about?

Virgen Extra is a figurative painting by Claus Bertermann that operates through an act of deliberate linguistic contamination. The title combines two entirely different systems of value: the Virgen (Virgin) of religious iconography — the figure of Mary, of purity, of sacred feminine — with "Extra," the highest quality designation in Spanish olive oil classification (Aceite de Oliva Virgen Extra). The contamination is the content. Bertermann lives and works in Asturias, northern Spain — a region with an ancient relationship to olive culture and Marian devotion, two Spanish obsessions that have coexisted without apparent contradiction for centuries. Virgen Extra places these two systems of purity and value in direct linguistic contact and asks, implicitly, whether they are so different: both systems claim to identify and preserve something essential, something untainted, something that meets the highest standard of its category. The painting does not explain this layering; it enacts it. Bertermann's figurative technique — paint roller background, oil crayon figures — produces a visual language that is itself a product of collision: the mechanical (roller) and the gestural (crayon), the industrial and the handmade. The purity of the "virgen" category — whether olive oil or religious figure — is complicated by the overt physicality and material directness of the painting process. Virgen Extra is among the works in Bertermann's figurative series that most directly engage with his dual cultural inheritance — German and Spanish — and with the specific landscape of northern Spain where he has built his practice.

Is Virgen Extra AI-generated?

No. Virgen Extra is a hand-painted original created entirely by Claus Bertermann — Acrylic and oil crayon 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.

Virgen Extra | Figurative Works

Virgen Extra (2026) — 200 × 150 cm | 79 × 59 in

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

Virgen Extra, 2026 — detail 10 | Claus Bertermann

Virgen Extra, 2026, 200 × 150 cm — full view | Claus Bertermann

Virgen Extra, 2026 — detail 2 | Claus Bertermann

CLAUS BERTERMANN — Virgen Extra (2026), 200 x 150 cm