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AINMULLER, See also:MAXIMILIAN See also:EMMANUEL (1807–1870) , See also:German artist and See also:glass-painter, was See also:born at See also:Munich on the 14th of See also:February 1807. By the See also:advice of Gartner, director of the royal See also:porcelain manufactory, he devoted himself to the study of glass-See also:painting, both as a See also:mechanical See also:process and as an See also: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 See also:enamel process adopted in the See also:Renaissance, and consisted in actually painting the See also:design upon the glass, which was subjected, as each See also:colour was laid on, to carefully-adjusted See also:heating. The earliest specimens of Ainmuller's See also:work are to be found in the See also:cathedral of See also:Regensburg. With a few exceptions, all the windows in See also:Glasgow cathedral are from his See also:hand. Specimens may also be seen in St See also:Paul's cathedral, and Peterhouse, See also:Cam-See also:bridge, and See also:Cologne cathedral contains some of his finest productions. Ainmuller had considerable skill as an oil-painter, especially in interiors, his pictures of the See also:Chapel Royal at See also:Windsor and of See also:Westminster See also:Abbey being much admired. He died on the 9th of See also:December 187o.

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