The origin of the acrylic is not fully known. According to various sources, his story changes. Next
Xavier de Langlais, early research on acrylic and vinyl have taken place in Germany in the 1930s.
As for André Béguin, it is the marketing of the first versions for art in 1958, the United States, and introduced in Europe shortly after.
Others believe that the discovery of this would be acrylic oldest, Francis Perego meanwhile, claimed that it would en1843 Redtenbacher, discovered the means of obtaining the acrylic acid based on a product which polymerise spontaneously acrolein. Then in the ensuing years, various researchers Europeans began to train using this acid ester polymer.
In 1901, Otto Röhm supports a thesis on the polymerization products of acrylic acid and founded the company "Otto Haas" in Esslingen in 1907. At Darmstadt around 1909, this company would have sold the polymethylmethacrylate.
F. Perego mentions that in 1927 the first "acrylic", as well as many derivatives would have appeared, but still quite expensive they could not integrate paint for artists circa 1949 in particular the United States.
Other sources claim that the use of acrylic paint for the arts goes back to the Mexican muralists of the 1950s:
Jose Orozco (1883-1949), Diego Ribera (1886-1957), David Siqueiros ( 1896-1974) ... The acrylic that already existed for the industry were not satisfied, so they asked researchers, chemists, paint best suited for their work, a paint that dries quickly and resists weathering 's acting for them to implement their paintings outdoors and so, that painting Acrylic will become little by little, the painting's favorite contemporary art. David Alfaro Siqueiros (Mexican muralist) in his writings: "Art and Revolution" tells the development of this painting.
In the U.S., artists who used acrylics in the forties were using products that were, in fact, solvent acrylic, made from a plastic resin diluted in a solvent white spirit, they were consistent with oil. Acrylics today differ somewhat from those which were invented in the thirties or fifties. It was marketed in Europe, the sixties and are not compatible with oil paint
SOURCES:
The technique of oil painting, Xavier de Langlais, Flammarion. Dictionary
materials of the painter Francis PEREGO, Belin.
Dictionary of painting, André Béguin