Franz Xaver Zettler
Franz Xaver Zettler (1841-1916) was a German stained glass artist.
Also recorded as F. X. Zettler
Franz Xaver Zettler

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- Name
- Franz Xaver Zettler
- Born
- 1841
- Died
- 1916
- Occupation
- Stained glass designer
- Nationality
- German Empire
- Honours
- Order of Saint Michael · Order of Franz Joseph
- Languages
- German
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Franz Xaver Zettler (1841-1916) was a German stained glass artist.
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Franz Xaver Zettler (1841–1916) was a bibliophile, councillor of commerce and entrepreneur, among other activities, of German nationality. The bibliophile was born and died in Munich. Franz Xaver Zettler worked in Munich.
Languages used include German. Honours include Order of Franz Joseph and Order of Saint Michael.
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• Name — 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
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.
Career
Career
• Illustration — Signature of the company F.X. Zettler. He started his own stained glass design company in 1870. He designed some of the stained glass in the Deutsche Evangelische Christuskirche in Knightsbridge, London in 1904-1905. He designed a window depicting The Crucifixion that today stands in Badin Hall.
Personal life
Personal life
He married Anna Mayer. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. His father-in-law, Joseph Gabriel Mayer (1808-83), was also a stained glass designer, who founded the firm of Franz Mayer of Munich.
Death
Death
He died on 27 March 1916, in München, Bavaria, at the age of 74, and was buried in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. • Illustration — Signature at UU Church of Lancaster PA
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Franz Xaver Zettler is recorded with the occupation councillor of commerce. Recorded with the occupation stained-glass artist. Recorded as stained-glass artist, painter, councillor of commerce, entrepreneur and bibliophile.

The Annunciation Window at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City was installed in 1908 by F. X. Zettler of the House of Littler, Royal Bavarian Institute in Munich. It is the first in a set of five windows depicting the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary along the west side of the Cathedral. The window is dedicated to Patrick Kervin by Mrs. M. H. Kervin.
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The Visitation Stained Glass Window at the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City was installed in 1908 by F. X. Zettler of the House of Littler, Royal Bavarian Institute in Munich. It is the second in a set of five windows depicting the Joyful Mysteries of the Rosary along the west side of the Cathedral. The window is dedicated to the memory of Patrick Phelan, an Irish boy who came to the U
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1841
Franz Xaver Zettler was born on 21 August 1841.
1916
Franz Xaver Zettler died on 27 March 1916.
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- 1.FamilySearch.org. ancestors.familysearch.org.
- 2.Farnsworth, Jean M. Stained Glass in Catholic Philadelphia. Saint Joseph's University Press. 2002. 978-0-916101-43-5.
- 3.'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].
- 4.Zettler Stained Glass Window. Campus Crucifixes.
- 5.German Stained Glass in Buffalo. buffaloah.com.
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