Emanuel Max Ainmiller - Interior of a Church [1859]

Emanuel Max Ainmiller - Interior of a Church [1859], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

Emanuel Max Ainmiller (February 4, 1807 - December 9, 1870) was a German artist and glass painter. Under the tutorage of Freidrich von Gartner, 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. 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.

[Oil on canvas, 68 x 54 cm]