Creativity meets inventiveness

Behind tiltSTOP are artist Katja Gramann, who has been working as a painter and Dr. Jens Gramann, who, as a development engineer, has already registered many patents for various companies. Their shared dissatisfaction with existing hanging systems gave rise to the idea, implementation, and marketing of Bigfoot.

For over 20 years, Katja and Jens have been a well-coordinated team: Katja has been active in the art world since 2001 and has been presenting her paintings nationally and internationally since 2014. Jens supports her, helping with tasks such as frame construction, building transport boxes, stretcher frame construction, transporting the artworks, installing them at the client's location, and hanging them in galleries and at art fairs.

Since their first exhibition, the two have been dealing with the problem of pictures that tilt forward and can never be optimally presented once they are suspended on nylon cables and gallery rails.

"An incredible amount of effort, expertise, and passion goes into a painting. Once it's finished and ready for sale, I naturally want to present it perfectly. And then you see the painting hanging on the nylon ropes and tilting forward. That's always frustrating because the painting never looks as good as it could. Hanging pictures on cable systems doesn't do them justice. Even a two-centimeter gap between the wall and the picture bothers me," explains Katja Gramann. More information about Katja Gramanns art you get here.

Your art finally presented perfectly.

In the spring of 2025, Jens developed the idea of a cable deflector that, by deflecting the cable, brings the cable closer to the center of gravity of the picture, thereby aligning the picture flush with the wall. In his garage at home, the experienced development engineer built the first prototypes on a trial basis to find out whether the idea actually worked. And lo and behold, it worked right away. The couple immediately realized that this was a big deal. An invention that would make a real difference for many artists, gallery owners, and aesthetes when presenting their works on cable systems and gallery rails. A picture presentation parallel to the wall—without the picture tilting forward.

This was followed by the founding of a GmbH (limited liability company), the registration of a patent, the development of the tiltSTOP brand (tilt means incline, stop is self-explanatory) and ultimately the marketing of the Bigfoot.

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