MAXIMILIAN

See also:

• EMMANUEL, or IMMANUEL

EMMANUEL

See also:

• MAXIMILIAN EMMANUEL AINMULLER (1807–1870)

AINMULLER (1807–1870)  , German artist and glass-painter, was born at Munich on the 14th of February 1807 . By the advice of Gartner, director of the royal porcelain manufactory, he devoted himself to the study of glass-painting, both as a mechanical process and as an art, and 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 Ainmuller'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, Cam-bridge, and Cologne cathedral contains some of his finest productions . Ainmuller had considerable skill as an oil-painter, especially in interiors, his pictures of the Chapel Royal at Windsor and of Westminster Abbey being much admired . He died on the 9th of December 187o .