Schmincke (company)

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H. Schmincke & Co. GmbH & Co. KG
legal form GmbH & Co. KG
founding 1881
Seat Erkrath , GermanyGermanyGermany 
management Nils Knappe
Number of employees 92 (2018)
Branch Artist colors
Website schmincke.de

Schmincke is a manufacturer of artist paints. The company, founded in 1881 and based in Erkrath, is one of the leading companies in the market for artists' paints. In addition to oil , acrylic and watercolors for traditional painting, Schmincke also produces colors for various artistic purposes such as lino printing , pastel colors , gouache colors and pigments .

history

Schmincke paint box (around 1935) with watercolors in half pans
Watercolor paints by Schmincke (2017)
Paint case with oil paints
Schmincke pastels

In 1881 the paint chemists Hermann Schmincke and Josef Horadam founded the company H. Schmincke & Co. Before that, while searching for traditional high-quality recipes for artist oil paints, they found the resin oil paint recipes of the painter Cesare Mussini (1804–1879), the professor of the Academy of Florence was. Resin oil paints were rarely used before the invention of the tube , because they were difficult to transport and store without tight containers. That is why simple oil paints were common at the time. Other European artist paint factories founded at the same time used oil paints without resin content for the industrial production of artist paints, which was beginning at that time.

Horadam also worked on recipes for artists' watercolors , which had been invented in England. In 1892 he received European patents for his Horadam's patent watercolors for his developments. The products sold under the Mussini resin oil paints and Horadam water color paints brands are still produced and developed by Schmincke today. Colors from Schmincke, for example, were used by Franz von Lenbach , but also by German and Austrian Expressionists such as Emil Nolde , Oskar Kokoschka and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff . According to his own statements, it is known about the Nobel Prize laureate for literature and artist Günter Grass that he worked with Schmincke watercolors: “I remember well how it became affordable for me soon after the currency reform [...] to buy my first watercolors, no more opaque colors, but real watercolors from Schmincke. In square pans, each wrapped in silver paper, they said their names on a banderole: carmine red, cobalt blue, Naples yellow, siena, umber, light ocher, chrome oxide green… ”(from: Mit Wasserfarben , 2001). Even the fictional artist Jed in the novel The Map and the Territory of Michel Houellebecq painted with Schmincke products.

Soon after the company was founded, special color ranges for art professors were added. When this turned out to be too expensive, a lower-priced range of oil colors was developed from it, which is still marketed today as Norma Professional , which are oil colors without resin. Around 1900, under the second generation of owners, Dr. Julius Hesse, the founder's nephew, added pastel colors and a gouache program for artists, graphic designers and retouchers . In 1926 the famous Otto Dix oil painting by the entrepreneur Dr. Julius Hesse, which is now in the permanent exhibition of the Stuttgart Art Museum . As part of the art exhibition "The Evil Eye" at the K20 Art Museum in Düsseldorf, the painting could also be seen at its place of origin.

In 1937, after the death of his father Julius Hesse, Ernst O. Hesse was initially unable to take over the business because of Jewish ancestors. His mother Gerta Hesse fled to Switzerland and continued the company there.

According to the company, the Schmincke company archive burned in the Second World War . After the forced break due to the war, the third generation under Ernst O. Hesse introduced the artist acrylic paints developed in the USA .

With the German printing ink manufacturers Hostmann-Steinberg and Kast & Ehinger, Schmincke developed the HKS color system from 1967 onwards . Schmincke's goal was to maintain market leadership in Germany in the field of gouache paints (formerly known as poster tempera ). In 1974 the company moved to a new factory in Erkrath. In 1981, with the 100th anniversary of the company, increased global expansion began. In 1998 Peter Julius Hesse , who had been the fourth generation managing director since 1971, handed over management to Nils Knappe. In 2018 - more than 135 years after the company was founded - the company is still family-owned. It still produces exclusively in Germany at the company's headquarters in Erkrath near Düsseldorf.

Economic situation

In addition to its home market of Germany, Schmincke supplies customers in 53 countries around the world. In 2018, Schmincke generated a gross profit of around EUR 13.9 million. The company has not raised long-term capital from banks. The majority of the outside capital is raised by the shareholders. Schmincke is a member of the VDMI and of the CEPE within the EuACA, the European Artists' Colors Association.

Awards

In 2012 and 2015, H. Schmincke & Co. was founded by Dr. Florian Langenscheidt was honored as part of the "Brands of the Century" project and received the "Brand Prize of German Standards" for his unique selling points for the artist's paint product category. This was followed in 2018 by the Creative Impulse Award at the Frankfurt trade fair Creative World 2018 - Schmincke received 1st prize in the "Creative Product of the Year" category with the JH Watercolor Wheel.

literature

Web links

Commons : Schmincke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMPRINT. January 24, 2020, accessed on March 1, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Annual financial statements of H. Schmincke & Co. GmbH & Co. KG., Erkrath for the financial year from January 1, 2018 to December 31, 2018 in the electronic Federal Gazette
  3. ↑ Mussini, Cesare in: Enciclopedia Italiana di scienze, lettere ed arti
  4. ^ Wibke Neugebauer: From Böcklin to Kandinsky. Art-technological research on tempera painting in Munich between 1850 and 1914. Dissertation University of Fine Arts Dresden 2015, Berlin 2016, p. 119.
  5. ^ A b Florian Langenscheidt (ed.): German standards: brands of the century . German Standards Editions, Cologne 2006, p. 468
  6. ↑ With watercolors - Günter Grass. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  7. ^ Michel Houellebecq : Map and area . Chapter XI. Also based on: Gisela Trahms: Michel Houellebecq: Karte und Territory , culturmag.de, August 1, 2001, accessed on January 23, 2017.
  8. ↑ Home - Art Museum Stuttgart. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Otto Dix - The Evil Eye, 02/11. - 28.05.2017, art collection NRW - K20 Grabbeplatz. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Dr. Guy Leclerc: 200 to Cesare Mussini. Biography Cesare Mussini ( memento from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Mussini's 200th birthday, text in French), accessed on January 21, 2017.
  11. ↑ schmincke.de company, corporate philosophy , accessed on January 21, 2017.
  12. ↑ Special colors. In: www.gutenbergblog.de. Retrieved January 11, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Thomas Maier: HKS-Farbe , Digital Media for Artists Archive 2002–2011, Art University Linz , April 10, 2006.
  14. ↑ Anke Schäning: Synthetic organic colorants from a technological collection of materials from the 19th / 20th centuries . Century: Identification, classification and their use as well as acceptance in (artist) colors early 20th century . Dissertation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Vienna 2010, p. 242 ( 193.175.110.9 [PDF; 36.6 MB ; accessed on January 11, 2017]).
  15. ↑ Company philosophy , schmincke.de
  16. ↑ CEPE. Retrieved October 23, 2018 (American English).
  17. ↑ SemiColonWeb: EuACA - European Artists' Colors Association. Retrieved October 23, 2018 (American English).
  18. ↑ Karsten Kilian, business graduate, brand expert: Brands of the Century (Florian Langenscheidt) @ Markenlexikon.com - Brand knowledge from A to Z! Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  19. ↑ bit-Verlag Weinbrenner GmbH & Co. KG: HobbyArt - NEWS Schmincke also named brand of the century, Auge, Frechverlag, iber, marohn, Vornefeld. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Creative Impulse Award 2018 presented at Creativeworld. Retrieved October 23, 2018 .