1. Skip to content
  2. Skip to main menu
  3. Skip to more DW sites
Live TV
Latest audioLatest videos
In focus
Russia's war in UkraineIsrael-Hamas warIndia elections
Lifestyle

YourPainting: Paintings from China for the World

February 4, 2013

It’s a novel idea - users can order their own personalized oil painting by uploading a photograph onto "yourpainting.de", a Berlin-based internet site. Chinese artists are then paid to recreate them on canvas.

https://p.dw.com/p/17Y1R

A Berlin start-up has taken aim at German living rooms. In 2010, André Lutter launched a company that creates acrylic and oil paintings based on photographs. The customers themselves determine the format and style. Lutter employs 400 artists in China on a fee basis. Last year alone, YourPainting sold 11,000 paintings.