Artists set the highest standards for the property and pureness of papers and boards they use – the basis of their work. Hahnemühle FineArt has been fulfilling these requirements with its products for over 420 years. Through its enormous sensitivity for artistic demands and creative needs, over the centuries, Hahnemühle has developed a comprehensive range of papers for professional artists and hobby painters and successfully offers it worldwide.
For generations, Hahnemühle paper has been unique!

Only a few companies can proudly look back on such a long, uninterrupted tradition. Since 1584, Hahnemühle’s papermakers have been proving that they superbly master the old craft: uniquely beautiful papers are created from pure spring water and first-class pulps, the same today as over 400 years ago. In the beginning hand-made vat papers were made, and today traditional recipes are still used to make papers which enthuse painters, graphic artists, illustrators, bookbinders and, more recently an increasing number of photographers. Since 1886, the artists’ paper factory in the south of Lower Saxony has taken the name Hahnemühle. Creative people worldwide associate this name with the very highest paper qualities.

See, feel, paint – Hahnemühle paper simply inspires. The structure and elegance of the sheets and rolls from the cylinder or Fourdrinier paper machine simply entices to you to produce creative artwork. Hahnemühle’s Traditional FineArt Collection offers the right artists’ paper for each technique: for watercolour or acrylic painting, for sketches and pastel drawings, for charcoal, red chalk or oil paints. But Hahnemühle paper is also the first choice for various printing techniques, for restoration and highquality book-binding. Apart from a wide range of different grammages and surfaces, we also offer papers with classic watermarks and real deckle edges.
All Hahnemühle papers are acid-free, lightfast and extremely age resistant.

Anyone who has mastered such a special and complex technology such as the production of high quality papers for as long and as well as Hahnemühle, continuously develops new fields of application. Apart from the Traditional FineArt Collection, Hahnemühle also offers the Digital FineArt Collection. Here the classic artists’ papers are finished and coated for InkJet printing to combine the precision of state-of-the-art photo papers with the wonderful elegance of artists’ papers. The Digital FineArt papers also appeal due to their high colour brilliance for digital prints and are especially suitable for photography, computer generated art, and painting and photographic reproductions. As the worldwide market leader for Digital FineArt papers, in today’s digital age, Hahnemühle combines tradition and innovation.

With our know-how and our experience in producing 150 different specialty paper qualities we at Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH possess the necessary innovative energy to continuously develop new products. Our success in this sector underscores our expertise and the quality of our specialty papers. Our papers benefit both traditional and innovative products of our renowned customers from a variety of business sectors. The market sectors we supply with our specialty papers are equally as diverse and efficient as the properties of our papers: the electrical industry, the adhesive industry, medical, foodstuff and luxury foodstuff sector. Furthermore, Hahnemühle FineArt GmbH is the contract manufacturer for high-purity papers for filtration and chemical and biological analysis. New products are conceived in close cooperation with our clients. Depending upon product application we draw up the specifications of the finished product together with the customer and guarantee their compliance.