Nature in the City

Looking for green oasis – painting competition on “Nature in the City” starts.

An urban park with skyline, lined up flower pots on the balcony or a vegetable garden on the high-rise rooftop – show us your green oasis in an urban environment nor your dream of it. Hahnemühle’s new painting competition is now open. Nature in the City” is the trendy theme for our art calendar 2016. We look forward to many internationalsubmissions and want to reach the record participation from last year again. The bar is set high: 1,200 images from 500 artists from 46 countries were submitted for the 2015calendar. So join in and tell others about the competition!

Kalenderwettbewerb2016_EN_Seite_1Our annual competition is open to allartists who like to paint, draw, illustrate,collage or print with traditional techniques. We call for entries ofprofessionals and hobbyists. Eachindividual is eligible. The only condition:your artwork must be created on a paper by Hahnemühle or Lana. Each motif must be suitable for printing on the calendar in at least 40 x 30 cm inlandscape format. To begin with, please submit digital files of your artwork. The uploadportal on our website will be open end of February. Deadline is the 30.06.2015. A jury is going to select 36 images for the shortlist and will pick 12 winning designs for the artscalendar 2016 this autumn. Participation in this international competition promisesworld-wide reputation to artists. Hahnemühle´s art calendar is released in a limitededition only and is not for sale. Hahnemühle business partners all over the world get it every year as an exclusive collectible’ and display the pictures all over the world. The winners will be awarded with ten calendars and a creative package with fine art papers by Hahnemühle.

Get inspired by all calendar motifs of the past years on our website.

For detailed terms and conditions, please click here.

Thanks to artists, designer and Urban Sketcher Jens Hübner for his artwork Sao PauloI”, which we kindly allowed to use for the call of entries.


Wednesday 02/18/2015
Written by Bettina Scheerbarth

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