About Us

The Gerstaecker family has been supplying fine art materials for over fifty years.
The company's initial customers were therapy centres that used art in all its forms to improve the quality of life for those with disabilities. Today, artists from every walk of life benefit from the Gerstaecker specialist ability to source and supply the finest art materials currently available.

Gerstaecker Verlag GmbH is based in Eitorf, a small town to the east of Bonn. Here, in a pretty valley formed by the river Sieg, the company has an ultra-modern 200,000 sq ft distribution centre. At its heart is a state-of-the-art warehouse where 35,000 different products are stocked ready for dispatch to artists all over Europe.
Every year, the company sends out 50,000 parcels per month and serves 500,000 customers throughout Europe. Backed by up-to-the-minute processing systems linked to subsidiaries in France and the UK, the picking and packing process operates day and night.
Still very much a family business, Gerstaecker prides itself on the experience and expertise of its managers and staff whose specialist knowledge of the art supplies industry helps to ensure the efficient operation of Europes most comprehensive and competitive one-stop shop for quality art materials.
Gerstaecker UK Limited - trading as Great Art - is located at Alton, Hampshire in the heart of Jane Austen Country. Since its inception in 2002, Great Art is now the UK's leading catalogue and webshop for quality art materials. Here we receive and process your orders. Our aim is to provide a reliable and friendly service and we welcome your views so that the contents of the Great Art program can better reflect your particular needs.

Great Art is proud to be a member of the Fine Art Trade Guild.

This trade association sets standards for materials such as mount board specifications, which Great Art follows; it pioneered the Guild Commender Framer program to enhance skills and knowledge in framing; it gives guidance via publications on various aspects of the industry; through the award winning Art Business Today magazine it disseminates information; and it has established a code of ethics for doing business.