Franz Xaver Zettler

Franz Xaver Zettler
Born	1841
Died	1916
Occupation	Stained glass designer
Relatives	Joseph Mayer (father-in-law)

Franz Xaver Zettler (1841-1916) was a German stained glass artist.

Early life

Zettler was born on 21 August in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, his father, Franz Xaver Zettler, was 27 and his mother, Ursula Oppenrieder, was 28.[1]

He was son-in-law of Joseph Gabriel Mayer (1808-83), founder of the Mayer firm.[2]

Career

Signature of the company F.X. Zettler.

He started his own stained glass design company in 1870.[3]

He designed some of the stained glass in the Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche in Knightsbridge, London in 1904-1905.[4] He designed a window depicting The Crucifixion that today stands in Badin Hall.[5]

Personal life

He married Anna Mayer. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter.[1] His father-in-law, Joseph Mayer, was also a stained glass designer.[3]

Death

He died on 27 March 1916, in München, Bavaria, at the age of 74, and was buried in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.[1]

Signature at UU Church of Lancaster PA

References

1. "FamilySearch.org". ancestors.familysearch.org. Retrieved 2025-01-27.
2. buffaloah.com https://buffaloah.com/a/DCTNRY/stained/munich.html. Retrieved 2025-01-27. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
3. Jean M. Farnsworth, Carmen R. Croce, Joseph F. Chorpenning, Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Saint Joseph's University Press, 2002, p. 135 [1]
4. 'Montpelier Square Area: Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche, Montpelier Place', in Survey of London: Volume 45, Knightsbridge, ed. John Greenacombe (London, 2000), pp. 124-127 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol45/pp124-127 [accessed 7 June 2015].
5. "Zettler Stained Glass Window". Campus Crucifixes. Retrieved 2021-03-21.