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I never thought I'd see the day when my hometown would be razed to the sky. As I stood there, watching the smoke rise in the distance, I felt a deep sense of loss and despair. All the memories I had of growing up there, playing in the parks and walking along the river, were now reduced to rubble and ash. It was as if a part of me had been destroyed along with it. But amidst the devastation, I also felt a glimmer of hope - the hope that someday, a new town would rise from the ashes, and that we would rebuild together, stronger than ever before.
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- The work was created in 2023 by German artist painter Claus Bertermann.
- The seller is the painter of this work.
- It comes with a hand-signed certificate of authenticity from Claus Bertermann.
- The work is in excellent condition.
- Canvas with white gesso primer. The actual painting consists of oil paints in numerous, rich layers.
- The canvas is shipped rolled.
- The canvas will be shipped without a wooden frame.
- The shipment is made as a roll, by means of a recognized courier service.
- Worldwide shipping is possible.
Claus Bertermann (1965) is a German artist painter with origins in architecture. His work is primarily influenced by art brut with a preference for abstract art.
After studying architecture at the Technical University of Munich (Munich), he worked as an architect until the mid-90s, later becoming an entrepreneur. He has Spanish roots. His grandfather, Guillermo Castañeda, was a Spanish painter. Bertermann spent his childhood in Spain with his grandparents, where he grew up surrounded by his grandfather's works and he often watched him paint. There was always that special smell of oil paint and turpentine in the air in the house. Bertermann's work is primarily about transience. He is concerned with the emergence and sedimentation of layers and their future transformation. It is about the present and the past, and the question of the future that inevitably arises from this. Influenced by his architectural education, Bertermann consciously rejects any kind of rules in his work, in a sense as a liberation from the strict structures and specifications of architecture. Painting means freedom for him. And abstract expressionism is for him the highest form of free expression. His way of painting is always impulsive, exposing himself to risk, deliberately unconsidered, intuitive. Structural thinking exists for him only in the structure of the color itself and in the composition. Claus Bertermann uses mainly oil paint, colored ink, acrylic paint and spray. His intellectual mentors and sources of inspiration are Georg Baselitz, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Dubuffet, Gerhard Richter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Karel Appel. It was not until Bertermann turned 50 that he felt mentally mature enough to devote himself to painting. As a "late bloomer," he has been a driven man ever since - he has no time to waste, which is why he maintains a very fluid painting style, deliberately avoiding details and usually working on several works at once.
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