stained glass windows,
photographs
by Matthias Ziegler, a kaleidoscope of colours, glass in all of its colours waits to be used in stained glass windows,
this is the studio of Michael Mayer who
continues the family business started by his great-great-grandfather, who now
runs the company alongside his architect wife, Petra, Michael studied mosaics
in Friuli in his 20s and soon afterward dedicated himself to the family
business, Petra wrote her architecture school thesis on how German cities
should acknowledge historic Third Reich-era buildings, in
the early 19th century elaborately designed stained glass windows became the
fashion, with many German artists and artisans adopting the craft, including
Joseph Gabriel Mayer, who in 1847 founded Munich’s Mayer Institute of Christian Art, over the years,
Mayer created the windows for Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein castle chapel in Bavaria, as well as the Königshaus am Schachen, his legendary folly of a
hunting lodge near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and to this day the Mayer’s continue
their craft, what an amazing history and calling, for the full story have a
look here.
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