schmincke pigment graphite

Schmincke Pigments consist of 48 brilliant, modern colours providing some unique properties:

- An outstanding range of highly lightfast premium pigments, all of which are excellent to produce an own artists' colour.
- It is also possible to vary existing colours by adding pigment powder or create metallic effects with our various bronzes.

Schmincke pigments are labelled "100% Pigment". They contain 100% pure pigment which have not been extended or blended. 100% Pigment guarantees the highest possible brilliance, maximum colour intensity and productiveness.

ABOUT SCHMINCKE
Schmincke began at the end of the 19th Century, when the colour chemists Josef Horadam and Hermann Schmincke saw an opportunity to provide the artists of the day with a truly superior artists oil, and so set out to Italy where traditional studio painting was still taught, in search of the nearly forgotten resin oil formulations.
In 1881, at the Academy of Fine Art in Florence, they secured the precision formulations of the Professor Cesare Mussini, a guardian of the old masters techniques, and on these formulations, the two founded their manufacturing establishment under the name H.Schmincke and Co.

In subsequent years, artists' colours to suit all techniques were introduced, such as Josef Horadam's patent watercolours of 1892. Through the entire 20th century, every generation of owner has lead the company to its current position as one of the worlds leading manufacturers of finest artists' colour.