Ernst Strassacker

What Ernst Strassacker does

Ernst Strassacker GmbH & Co. KG Kunstgießerei is a fourth-generation, family-owned art foundry headquartered in Süßen, Germany, founded in 1919 by Ernst Strassacker and currently led by Edith Strassacker. Operating from approximately 320 employees at its German headquarters plus wholly-owned subsidiaries in Heimsbrunn, France (manufacturing) and Florence, Kentucky, USA (sales), the company is positioned as one of Europe's oldest and largest art foundries. Its core offering is custom bronze casting using lost-wax casting, sand casting at approximately 2282°F, modern CNC milling, and industrial 3D-printed molds supplied through a long-running partnership with voxeljet (PMMA and quartz sand), with hand chasing and patination performed in-house. The business is organized into three divisions: Sakral (grave memorials, bronze plaques, lettering, religious figures, and ritual objects); Edition Strassacker (strictly limited-edition contemporary sculptures by internationally renowned artists sold through a dedicated online shop); and Manufaktur Strassacker (custom commissions for design, art, and architecture). A fourth brand, Strassacker Selections, was launched in May 2025 as a curated exclusive art and design line.

The company generates revenue through a hybrid model: project-based commissioned work for large institutional clients (memorials, mosques, public monuments, architectural installations), limited-edition unit sales of numbered sculptures (typical editions of 8–24 pieces), catalog memorial products sold via e-commerce (Edition Strassacker and Sacred Shop), and wholesale through a stonemason reseller network across Germany and abroad. Notable commissions include the 77 bronze steles for the Utoya memorial in Norway (each 3 meters tall and ~400 kg), portals for the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the world's largest bronze horse in Miami, and the Bambi award trophies. Distribution combines direct enterprise field sales for major projects, a flagship gallery/showroom of over 800 square meters in Süßen, two international sales offices, e-commerce platforms, and partner stonemasons. Approximately 320 staff support production, marketing channels include website, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, YouTube, and trade fair participation (BAU Munich 2025), and customer base spans internationally renowned artists, art collectors, architects, municipalities, religious institutions, and individual memorial buyers across the DACH region, France, North America, and select international markets.

Name

Ernst Strassacker

Legal name

Ernst Strassacker GmbH & Co. KG Kunstgießerei

Website

https://strassacker.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1919

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

501–1,000 employees

Short description

Ernst Strassacker is a fourth-generation, family-owned German art foundry (founded 1919, ~320 staff) that designs, casts, and finishes bronze sculptures, limited-edition artworks, grave memorials, and large architectural commissions using lost-wax and 3D-printed-mold processes for artists, collectors, municipalities, and stonemasons worldwide.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Süßen

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Commissioned Works: Custom commissioned works by internationally renowned artists, customized products for design, art and architecture clients, and major international projects. Revenue generated through project-based custom manufacturing.
2. Limited Edition Sculptures (Edition Strassacker): Sale of strictly limited edition sculptures created with renowned artists. Sculptures are produced according to strict specifications with limited numbering and artist signatures. Online shop available for direct consumer purchases.
3. Sacred Art Products: Grave memorials, design elements for tombstone culture, bronze plaques, lettering, madonnas, angels, religious figures, ritual objects. Sold through Sacred Shop online platform and cooperation with stonemasons.
4. Custom Manufacturing (Manufaktur): Custom-made products in the fields of design, art and architecture realized through Manufaktur Strassacker division.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels11 records

Core offering

Ernst Strassacker is a fourth-generation family-owned art foundry that produces bronze sculptures, grave memorials, lettering, religious figures, ritual objects and architectural elements through custom commissioned works, strictly limited edition releases, and consumer-facing memorial product lines. Its four divisions—Sakral (grave memorials and sacred art), Edition Strassacker (limited edition contemporary sculptures), Manufaktur Strassacker (custom design, art and architecture commissions) and Strassacker Selections (curated art and design objects)—deliver cast products from wax modeling through casting, chasing, patination and finishing, sold via its own gallery, online shops and stonemason distribution partners.

Product overview

Ernst Strassacker is a fourth-generation family-owned art foundry offering bronze casting services through three main divisions: Sacred (Sakral) for grave memorials, ritual elements, and cemetery design products; Edition Strassacker for limited edition contemporary sculptures by renowned artists; and Manufaktur Strassacker for custom-made products in design, art, and architecture. In 2025, they launched Strassacker Selections as an exclusive curated art and design brand. The company also produces religious art, architectural lettering, memorial plaques, and executes major international projects including memorials, cathedral elements, and large-scale sculptures.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Sakral: Sacred art division - grave memorials and design elements for contemporary tombstone culture
• Edition Strassacker
• Manufaktur Strassacker
• Strassacker Selections

Products and services

• Sakral (Sacred) division Sacred art division designing and realizing individual grave memorials and design elements for contemporary tombstone culture, including symbols, ritual objects, lettering and religious figures, sold to families and stonemasons.
• Edition Strassacker Limited edition contemporary sculptures by internationally renowned artists, produced in Süßen workshops in strictly limited and numbered editions using the lost wax casting technique, for art collectors and garden sculpture buyers via the online shop.
• Manufaktur Strassacker Custom manufacturing division that executes commissioned works by internationally renowned artists and customized products in design, art and architecture, including monumental international projects such as memorial sites, portals and large-scale installations.
• Strassacker Selections Curated collection of exceptional art and design objects presented as an exclusive brand, featuring works by selected artists, available through the dedicated online shop.
• Grave Memorials (Sacred product line) Bronze grave memorials including Madonnas, Angels, Christ figures, mourners, and symbolic elements such as bridges, rainbows, hearts and children's symbols, sold through the Sacred Shop for tombstone design.
• Bronze Lettering Metal lettering in bronze, aluminum and stainless steel for gravestones and architectural stone inscriptions, including proprietary typeface designs that visually detach from the stone material.
• Plaques and Books Bronze plaques sand-cast at approximately 2282°F, hand-chased and finished with raised or recessed lettering and symbols, for personalization with texts, names and dates on memorials and architecture.
• Ritual Objects Votive lamps, vases, holy water bowls and small-size grave symbols with ritual elements such as flower vases and votive lamps for individual gravesite design.
• Animal and Plant Representations Bronze representations of animals including birds, butterflies and other animals, as well as flowers and trees for individual grave design and memorial personalization.
• Windweide (Sculpture by Kurtfritz Handel) Limited edition bronze sculpture depicting grazing cows with wind turbines, limited to 12 numbered and signed copies, presented via Edition Strassacker.
• Going (Sculpture by Michal Trpák) Edition sculpture consisting of 980 male and female figures in three different sizes, limited to 8 numbered and signed editions, cast in bronze.
• HIX (Sculpture by Sonja Keppler) Bronze sculpture limited to 24 numbered and signed copies, cast using the lost wax technique with hand patina, by artist Sonja Keppler.
• Utoya Memorial (77 Bronze Steles) Custom-commissioned memorial consisting of 77 massive bronze steles, each 3 meters high and approximately 400 kg, fabricated and installed for the Utoya national memorial site in Norway commemorating the 2011 terror attack victims.

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully cast approximately 1,000 individual figures in one sculpture ('Going' by Michal Trpák)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Feature7 records

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Atelier MageraminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Collaboration for German Children's Hospice Award 2025. Atelier Magera created the wax model of the ginkgo leaf design, which Strassacker then cast in bronze and mounted on ginkgo wood base.
• Academy of Fine Art Germany GmbHminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Art academy partnership for 'STRASSACKER MEETS' event series. Students and faculty visit facilities for educational insights into bronze casting, chasing, and patination processes.
• ABK StuttgartminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Art academy partnership for educational events. Students participated in 'STRASSACKER MEETS' day featuring digital design, 3D modeling to bronze casting demonstrations.
• Manthey Kula Architects (Norway)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Oslo architectural firm designed the Utoya memorial consisting of 77 bronze steles. Strassacker manufactured and installed the memorial for victims of the 2011 terror attacks. Partnership involved high-precision technical requirements including 3-meter tall individually twisted steles.
• Bureau Bas Smets (Belgium)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2022Landscape architecture firm from Brussels collaborated on the Utoya memorial project alongside Manthey Kula Architects.
• voxeljetcoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2019Technology partnership for industrial 3D printing systems. voxeljet provides 3D printing technology for creating casting molds, enabling previously impossible artistic designs. Strassacker has worked with voxeljet's 3D plastic printing models for over 15 years.
• German and International StonemasonscoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorOngoing cooperation with leading stonemasons from Germany and abroad. Stonemasons integrate Strassacker's bronze components (lettering, plaques, figures) into complete memorial solutions and provide local market access.
• Internationally Renowned ArtistscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerOngoing creative partnerships with artists like Anders Krisár, Hedi Xandt, and others who commission limited edition works or custom sculptures. Strassacker provides full casting expertise in close cooperation with artists.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Johnson Atelier Technical Institute of Sculpture: US sculpture foundry in Hamilton, NJ casting bronze and other metals for artists; comparable capabilities for monument, memorial, and architectural-scale commissions similar to the Utoya project.
• Bildgießerei Andreas Fettin: Berlin-based art foundry offering lost wax and sand casting for artists, sculptors, and architects; closest German competitor with overlapping product focus on limited editions and memorials.
• Habegger Foundry: Switzerland-based bronze art foundry with international reach, serving artists, architects, and memorial customers; shares Strassacker's German-speaking craftsmanship heritage and DACH-region positioning.
• Tallix: US art foundry in Beacon, NY producing bronze sculpture editions and large commissions for contemporary artists; competes directly with Strassacker for international public and private art commissions.
• Pangolin Editions: UK-based art foundry casting limited edition and large-scale bronze sculptures for contemporary artists; serves the same artists, collectors, and galleries using similar lost wax and sand casting techniques as Strassacker.
• Modern Art Foundry: NY-area art foundry offering bronze casting, chasing, and patination services for sculptors; comparable service breadth to Strassacker's Manufaktur division and Edition limited-edition work.
• Fonderia Artistica Battaglia: Italian art foundry in Milan casting bronze works for contemporary and historical artists; directly comparable art-casting craftsmanship and international commissions across European markets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCG-Xcmlu_y2z3XXyw5qQHmA
• Facebookfacebook.com/strassacker
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/kunstgie%C3%9Ferei-strassacker
• Instagraminstagram.com/strassacker
• Pinterestpinterest.de/strassacker
• Xx.com/strassacker1919

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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