Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller

Background

Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller was born at Munich on the 14th of February 1807 in Munich, Germany.

Education

Under the tutorage of Friedrich von Gärtner, director of the royal Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Ainmiller studied glass painting, both as a mechanical process and as an art, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Career

In 1828 he was appointed director of the newly founded royal painted-glass manufactory at Munich. The method which he gradually perfected there was a development of the enamel process adopted in the Renaissance, and consisted in actually painting the design upon the glass, which was subjected, as each colour was laid on, to carefully adjusted heating.

The earliest specimens of Ainmiller's work are to be found in the cathedral of Regensburg. With a few exceptions, all the windows in Glasgow cathedral are from his hand. Specimens may also be seen in St Paul's cathedral and Peterhouse, Cambridge, and the Cologne cathedral contains some of his finest productions. Ainmiller had considerable skill as an oil-painter, especially in interiors, his pictures of the Chapel Royal at Windsor Castle and of Westminster Abbey being much admired, the latter of which is displayed in the gallery of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich.

He died on the 9th of December 1870.

Achievements

• Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller was a German artist who earned special recognition internationally as a glass painter.
  
  His works include the windows of the Regensburg Cathedral, the Mariahilfkirche in Munich, the Speyer cathedral and the Bavarian windows in Cologne Cathedral. He created all the windows of the Glasgow Cathedral, as well as single copies at St Paul's Cathedral and the Peterhouse in Cambridge. Other works were produced for churches in Madrid, Boston, Rome and St. Petersburg.
  
  A street, Ainmillerstrasse, named in his memory, is located in the Munich district of Schwabing