When we decided to launch and talk about Schminckes rich history with a retro line, we gathered inspiration from our archives containing not only historical painting sets, but also lots of tubes, brochures and pricelists.
By doing so we discovered a beautiful pricelist from 1912 with one of our old owl logos and with the for the art nouveau time typical ornaments. This unfortunately already pretty worn out, but beautiful document was the starting point of our retro line.
1912 was a time when Schmincke was not only successful with its founding product Mussini, finest artists' resin oil colours, but also with the HORADAM watercolours developed by Josef Horadam. At this time Josef Horadam was also honoured with several high-ranking awards from the German Emperor, including for his achievement of exporting chemical products abroad (and thus competing with local artists' colours).
The limited annual promotion 2024 brings back to life a selection of our former HORADAM watercolour sets. As a special highlight, a historic colour with all its original characteristics is also being revived - cochineal red.
Beautifully designed retro-style packaging, the historic owl print on the boxes, retro labels around tubes and pans, a historical letter from the founders and a retro watercolour insert complete the concept.
Thank you for also being part of our history and joining us on this exciting journey.
HORADAM Retro Standard metal box, 12 x 1/2 pans
Finest artists' watercolours in best quality.
Schmincke time travel to 1912: the retro line revives the compositions of historic HORADAM watercolour sets. The art-historically significant colours form a range which created once the most beautiful watercolour paintings in the good old days. As a special highlight we have also reissued a historical colour with all its original characteristics - cochineal red.
Standard metal box, 12 x 1/2 pans
Solid, black special box with historical Schmincke owl print
in classic configuration:
Colours:
211, 213, 365, 357, 494, 492, 513, 515, 660, 653, 669, 782
Art.-No. 74 647 097
HORADAM Retro Compact metal box, 6 x 5 tubes
Compact box with historical owl print contains
6 tubes including the historical special colour cochineal red. The box also contains 6 empty half pans tor individual filling with the tube colours from the HORADAM range (140 + 50
tubes). Contains the same colours as the historical original:
Colours:
226, 337, 487, 535, 667, 662
Art.-No. 74 648 097
HORADAM Retro Luxury set
Finest artists' watercolours in best quality.
Elegant, walnut-stained wooden box with 18 half-pans in a historical choice and colour palette, including the historical special tone Cochineal Red in a 15 ml tube. Intended for direct use, the box also contains a porcelain palette and a limited edition da Vinci Cosmotop Mixed F brush in size 2. 18 half-pans in these colours:
Colours:
229, 513, 211, 660, 535, 226, 667, 485, 353, 669, 780, 492, 653, 782, 365, 662, 101, 494, plus Cochineal Red 337
Art.-No. 74 650 097
HORADAM Retro Travel Box
Finest artists' watercolours in best quality.
The smallest metal box in the Retro Line fits in any pocket and contains 8 half-pans of HORADAM watercolours – in a perfectly reduced colour palette – everything you need for painting and mixing. Includes 8 half-pans:
Colours:
211, 365, 494, 513, 656, 667, 649, 783
Art.-No. 74 649 097
HORADAM Retro „Cochineal Red“, a historical original in 15 ml
Finest artists' watercolours in best quality.
This historical special colour is exclusively produced for Schmincke's Retro Line. The original Cochineal Red is a transparent, deep red obtained from cochineal scale insects and was once an important colour for watercolourm paintings.
Art.-Nro 14 337 006
