New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

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New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

Quoted from the company website, link: https://www.staedtler.com/de/de/unternehmen/ueber-staedtler/historie/Feedback geben

New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

Quoted from the company website, link: https://www.staedtler.com/de/de/unternehmen/ueber-staedtler/historie/Feedback geben

New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

Quoted from the company website, link: https://www.staedtler.com/de/de/unternehmen/ueber-staedtler/historie/Feedback geben

New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

Quoted from the company website, link: https://www.staedtler.com/de/de/unternehmen/ueber-staedtler/historie/Feedback geben

New gravestone with a new epitaph for the historic grave of Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the inventor of the colored pencil. Commissioned by Staedtler and completed in March 2025. 

The Invention of the Colored Pencil As early as 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler, the great-great-grandson of Friedrich Staedtler, began producing a new type of pencil. He succeeded in improving the common red chalk pencil so that it could be "sharpened to the finest possible level, like a pencil," enabled fine line widths, and adhered better to paper. Through his innovation, Johann Sebastian Staedtler ultimately went down in history not only as a pencil manufacturer, but also as the inventor of the wood-cased colored pencil based on oil pastels. In 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler laid the foundation for today's STAEDTLER Group.

Johann Sebastian Staedtler was born in 1800, the son of the Nuremberg pencil manufacturer Paulus Staedtler, and learned the art of making lead and sanguine pencils. He worked ambitiously and ultimately successfully to industrially produce oil pastel-based colored pencils. The sanguine pencils known at the time covered a color spectrum from light and dark to violet red or reddish brown. In 1834, Johann Sebastian Staedtler announced his development of a wood-cased—initially—red colored pencil that could be sharpened like a pencil and impressed with consistent color and hardness. The manufacturing process, which later included other color pigments, including those mixed with binding agents, ground, and dried in an oven, was his idea. It made Johann Sebastian Staedtler a pioneer of a product that changed the everyday lives of many. An idea that made waves. The idea was quickly to go into series production. As early as October 9, 1835, Johann Sebastian Staedtler received permission to operate a factory. Initially, his company, "J.S. Staedtler," produced not only pencils but also the improved red chalk pencils. By 1844 at the latest, colored pencils in other colors were also being produced. This was the birth of the colored pencil as we know it today. In the first surviving catalog from 1860, the J.S. Staedtler company already offered its colored pencils under the product brand "Creta Polycolor" in 100 different colors, such as "English Dark Red," "Sea Green," and "Azure Blue."

Quoted from the company website, link: https://www.staedtler.com/de/de/unternehmen/ueber-staedtler/historie/Feedback geben