Kremer pigments
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| legal form | GmbH & Co. KG |
| founding | 1977 |
| Seat | Aichstetten |
| management | Georg Friedrich Kremer |
| Number of employees | 40 (in Aichstetten) |
| Branch | Manufacture and distribution of colorants, restoration and painting supplies |
| Website | kremer-pigmente.de |
Kremer Pigmente GmbH und Co. KG is a company specializing in the production of historical pigments with its headquarters in Aichstetten in the Ravensburg district .
history
Company founder Georg Kremer studied chemistry and physics in Stuttgart and Tübingen and received his doctorate in physical chemistry . While he was doing research at the Chair of Theoretical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Tübingen, a restorer friend asked him for help in the search for smalt , a ground glass of blue paint containing cobalt. Since the invention of Smalte in Mesopotamia around 4000 years ago, this glass was often used to represent “sky” or the element “air” until the Baroque era . As there was no manufacturer of smalt pigments, Kremer went in search of the long-lost recipe for the manufacture of this pigment and he actually succeeded in producing smalt pigments in his basement, which had been converted into a laboratory. This is how the history of Kremer pigments began in 1977.
The company's service also includes the provision of recipes for the production of painting materials as well as chemical information on the pigments. Suitability lists and processing instructions can also be found on the company's website.
In addition to the main location in Aichstetten, the company operates its own branches in New York and Munich. In addition, many color shops have pigments and materials from Kremer Pigmente GmbH & Co. KG in their range.
Products
Kremer Pigments is a company specializing in the production of historical color pigments. In their production, mainly naturally occurring raw materials such as earth, minerals or plants are used and processed according to old recipes, some of which come from the Middle Ages. These pigments are especially important for restorers, as they make it possible to faithfully restore pictures, sculptures or frescoes.
The company's head office in Aichstetten has its own paint mill - Kremer is one of the last manufacturers of small quantities of rare pigments from in-house production. There are also research laboratories for colorant chemistry for new colorants and for the analysis of historical samples. Research into historical color recipes, rediscovered raw materials and their extraction form the basis of the company. Kremer Pigments also works according to orders and manufactures colorants that are otherwise no longer available, such as handkerchiefs . The company has an extensive archive of color samples as reference material.
In addition, the company deals in painting materials and associated tools (brushes, canvases, binders), as well as restoration supplies and secondary literature on the preservation of monuments .
In addition to the manufacture of painting materials and their distribution, the company also offers courses several times a year on various topics such as "Manufacture and use of pigments". It is also possible to take a tour of the Aichstetten plant.
literature
- Angelika Overath: dealer of lost colors . In: Zeitmagazin , No. 49, November 27, 1992, p. 41 ff. (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- Colors: Georg Kremer. The deepest blue, the brightest yellow and the glowing red - a small company in the Allgäu supplies the pigments for great art. - In: art - Das Kunstmagazin , 2000, 4, pp. 70–77. ISSN 0173-2781
- Valentine Walsh, Tracey Chaplin, Ruth Siddall, Nicholas Eastaugh: Pigment Compendium: A Dictionary and Optical Microscopy of Historical Pigments . Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, Burlington, 2008 ( Google Books )
- Color pigments, dyes, color stories. Exhibition "Color Laboratory" in the Gewerbemuseum Winterthur from November 19, 2006 to June 27, 2008 as well as the pigments and dyes made available by Georg Kremer with the associated information. Alataverlag, Winterthur 2010, ISBN 978-3-033-02349-9 .
- Pip Seymour, Francesca Betti: Kremer Pigments pigment register . Lee Press, 2009, ISBN 0952472791
media
- Forgotten colors - natural product color. , nano, February 15, 2003
- Old masters - new shine. ARTE, November 13, 2009
- Seilnacht, Thomas: DVD-ROM chemistry, rubric paint companies: excursion to Kremer pigments , Seilnacht Verlag & Atelier, Bern 2017
Web links
- Kremer Pigments website of the company
- Excursion report on Kremer Pigments and their production by Fra Angelico Blau at Kremer Pigments, in Seilnacht's Lexicon of Dyes and Pigments at www.seilnacht.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sales outlets in Germany ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Company website, December 4, 2013
- ↑ At home in the Allgäu. At home in the world. (PDF; 3.5 MB) (No longer available online.) In: Monopol-Magazin 05/2009 . Archived from the original on July 10, 2009 ; Retrieved January 1, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Veronese green 80 marks per kilo ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , art magazine 4/2000
- ↑ Merchant of the lost colors. In: ZEIT magazine No. 49/1992
- ↑ Actions and exhibitions at “Platz der Buchkunst 2007” → Kremer Pigments ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , buchdruckkunst.de
- ↑ a b Thomas Seilnacht: At the Kremer paint mill in Aichstetten / Allgäu , 1996. Retrieved on June 8, 2017.
- ↑ a b 3Sat: Forgotten colors - natural product color. , nano-online, February 15, 2003
