Franz Schroeder

June 7, 1929 – December 14,2018

Born June 7, 1929

The talented and charismatic Franz Schroeder became one of America’s foremost stained glass and mosaic artists. He began studying drawing at the School for the Arts and Crafts in Munich under Professor Rueckert and later joined the Art Student League, in  New York. He apprenticed at The Institute for Glass Painting and Mosaics with the Mayerische Hofglaserei Mayer in Munich, and also came to be a lead designer and artist at their affiliate, F.X. Zettler Studios in New York.   

Over more than sixty years, Franz Schroeder created hundreds of artworks. His extraordinary talent in glass, mosaic and iconography can be seen throughout the United States. He was the lead artist for famous studios, including Chartrand Studios, Potente, St. Michel and the Rohlf’s Studio, as well as at the Franz Mayer’sche Hofkunstaltalt  in Munich.

Franz came from the ‘Munich Style’, which he learned in his early years with the Franz Mayer’sche Hofkunstaltalt in Germany and the F.X. Zettler Studios in New York. This style required careful painting on relatively large glass panels, as opposed to the medieval technique of smaller pieces of colored glass held in a leaded framework.    

While other artists in Germany began to develop a more modern style, Franz took the ‘Munich Style’ to an entirely new level of expression all his own – he maintained a figural manner of visualizing biblical stories.

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