Trade and commercial

Fine art prints from the archive of Peter Wirth (1951–2018), supplied to offices, medical and dental practices, law firms, hotels, restaurants, co-working spaces and senior living — and to the designers and art consultants who specify them.

How we work

Everything by email. No portal, no account to open, no call to schedule. Write once and you have an answer in writing you can forward.
A written quote within two working days — fixed price, named works, and a confirmed production date before you commit to anything.
193 single works and 18 curated wall sets are offered today, drawn from an archive of just under 15,000 catalogued objects. If none of them fits the space, ask: most of the archive has never been published.

Specification

Paper: Hahnemühle German Etching, 310 gsm — heavy, matt, lightly textured mould-made paper, acid-free, made for pigment printing
Printing: Pigment inks, produced individually to order at a fine art atelier in the United States. Nothing is stocked.
Sheet sizes: 8 × 10, 11 × 14, 12 × 16 and 16 × 20 inches; 18 × 24 where the archive photograph of that particular work carries it
Framed: Narrow solid wood, black, satin finish; acrylic glazing; hanging hardware fitted; no mount. Framing is offered up to 16 × 20 inches.
Border: Every sheet carries a white border. The artwork sits inside it at its own proportions — nothing is cropped to fit the paper.
Packaging: Flat, in archival packaging, framed and unframed alike. Never rolled.
Certificate: One with every print, naming the work, the original behind it and a registration number recorded in the estate archive
Trade minimum: 10 prints in one order
Production time: Single prints leave the atelier in one to five working days. For ten prints and above we confirm a production date in writing with the quote — we do not name a date we have not confirmed with the atelier first.
Reordering: Identical, years later, quoted by work number — same file, same paper, same certificate
Shipping: Included to one address within the United States from ten prints. Several addresses are quoted with the order.

Why a made-to-order archive suits a commercial wall

Nothing here is a limited edition, and that is the point. Every print is produced individually from a numbered work in the artist's own hand-kept register. Three consequences matter to a specifier:

A wall can be extended. Add three more prints in year two, in the same series and the same finish. Same work numbers, same certificates.
A damaged print is replaced with the identical print — not a near-match, not "the closest we still have". The same file, the same sheet.
Nothing sells out. There is no edition to run out of. If a paper is ever discontinued we will say so and offer the closest equivalent, with the same work number and the same certificate.

No limited-edition publisher can promise any of the three.

Not every work exists in every size. How far a work can go is decided by its own archive photograph, one work at a time, and we do not enlarge with software. If a project needs one size throughout, name the size first and we will select only works that carry it.

Trade pricing

Trade terms begin at ten prints in one order. They apply to the shop list price and can be combined across sizes and across series.

Order	Unframed sheets	Framed prints
10 – 24 prints	15 % off list	10 % off list
25 – 49 prints	22 % off list	15 % off list
50 prints and above	30 % off list	20 % off list

Below ten prints the shop applies its own volume discount automatically — 10 % off from two works, 15 % from six. Trade terms take the place of it rather than adding to it. At ten to twenty-four prints the rate on sheets is the same 15 % the shop already gives; what trade adds at that level is everything else on this page — invoicing on account, shipping to one address included, a selection chosen for the space, a measured hanging plan, and a confirmed production date. From twenty-five prints upwards the rate goes beyond anything the shop offers.

Samples

Paper and colour are worth confirming in the hand before a project commits to thirty sheets. We send a sample sheet of any work you name, invoiced at cost and credited in full against your first trade order. Ask for it in your first email.

How ordering works

You send the brief. One email. The checklist below is everything we need.
We send a selection and a quote within two working days — works chosen for the space, a hanging plan, a fixed price and a confirmed production date. No obligation.
You approve in writing, we produce. Made individually, then shipped flat to one address or several.
You pay on invoice. First order half on approval and the balance on delivery; on repeat orders, net 30 days.

What to put in the first email

Six lines save us both three messages:

How many prints, and for what kind of space
Sizes, or the wall measurements if you would rather we propose them
Framed or unframed
The date you need them on site
A colour direction if you have one — the blues, the reds and golds, the darker works — or say "propose one"
A photograph of the wall, if there is one

If your purchasing process needs supplier paperwork — a W-9, a resale certificate on file, a particular invoice format, a purchase-order reference on the invoice — say so in the same email and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot provide.

For art consultants and designers

We keep a trade library for specification: a sheet per work with the image, the work number, the medium and size of the original, the print sizes it carries, paper, frame option and trade price — formatted to go straight into your own client presentation. Ask with the subject line Trade library and say which resolution you work in. We will also hold a selection under your project name while your client decides.

The archive behind it

Peter Wirth painted, printed and photographed for four decades and catalogued his own work by hand. The Egyptian Museum in Berlin showed his Nefertiti cycle in 1993, with a catalogue text by its director. He also showed at the Museum Folkwang in Essen and five years running at the Große Kunstausstellung NRW in Düsseldorf. The estate is held by his widow, Angelika Hannig-Wirth.

We hold the reproduction rights to the whole body of work — there is no gallery, agent or picture library in between and no third party to clear. The artist photographed every painting himself over four decades, so the reproduction files come from the estate itself rather than from a scanning house or a picture agency. Every print carries a registration number recorded in the estate archive.

The artist, his exhibitions and his archive

Write to us

studio@divineeditions.com

Subject Trade enquiry — a project, a quantity, a date
Subject Trade library — specification sheets and files
Subject Sample — a sheet in the hand first

We answer within two working days, in writing, every time.

Divine Editions · Angelika Hannig-Wirth · Sperlingsweg 26, 46242 Bottrop, Germany · Production and shipping within the United States.