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Munich Studio of ChicagoThe Munich Studio of Chicago was a stained-glass window company that operated in Chicago from 1903 to 1932. It was founded by German stained-glass artist Max Guler.
HistoryMunich Studio of Chicago was established in 1903, by German immigrant artist Max Guler (1870–1937). Guler studied China painting in his native town of Munich and had arrived in Chicago in 1896. He and his two partners, salesman L. Holzchuh and manager/bookkeeper Denis Shanahan, formed a soon-successful firm that hired numerous artisans and eventually made windows for probably 150 churches throughout the Midwest, until the Great Depression arrested church construction and put the company out of business in 1932.[1] Guler and his key artisans thereafter worked for the Drehobl Art Glass Company of Chicago (still in business today), and Guler died in 1937.[1][2] Guler was a highly gifted designer of windows. According to Drehobl's son: “Guler was a short, stout man whose greatest enjoyment was to sit at his drawing board dreaming of new ways to express a Biblical event or quotation” in “pictorial windows beautifully grouped in rich, gorgeous colors.” Guler was also proficient in creating and painting windows, although he usually left that work to his master artisans, including: Peter Kugel, who specialized in portraits and flesh tinting; Herman Schulze, who painted landscapes, floral designs, cloth textures and drapery folds; and George Wieroeder and Joseph Lazar, who cut, fired and leaded the glass. These men worked together to execute Guler's beautifully detailed pencil drawings and watercolor renderings.[1] Guler's rich colors were achieved by hand-painting sections of glass (from France, Germany and the US) with glass paints: ground glass mixed with iron oxide, yellow stain and other colorants; then firing the painted glass in a kiln. Windows made with this detailed painting are known as Munich-style stained-glass, or Munich windows.[3] Munich Studio windows are characterized by the use of:[1]
List of projects Partial Munich Studio catalog listings from 1910 to 1925 note thirty-two major church installations in Chicago; and ninety-six in churches in other Midwestern states than Illinois.[1] Most of the listings below are from two Munich Studio catalogs in the Chicago History Museum archives (see below) unless otherwise cited, and list the churches in which windows were installed, or the priests who ordered them. Chicago, IL: Our Lady of Sorrows (c.1900)[1] Chicago, IL: Presentation Church Chicago, IL: St. Agnes (1905)[1] Chicago, IL: St. Bride Church (1910)[4] Chicago, IL: St. Bridget's Chicago, IL: St. Dominic's Chicago, IL: St. Jarlath's Church Chicago, IL: St. Leo's (1914)[1] Chicago, IL: St. Margaret Mary (1924)[1] Chicago, IL: St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral (1915)[5] Chicago, IL: St. Philip Benizi Church (1904) Chicago, IL: St. Phillip's (1916)[1] Chicago, IL: St. Veronica (1905)[1] Chicago, IL: (Fr. D.J. Cremins) Chicago Heights, IL: (Fr. F. Grzes) Des Plaines, IL: (Fr. J. Linden) Freeport, IL: Chapel St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum Keithsburg, IL: St. Mary's Monmouth, IL: Immaculate Conception Church Niles Center, IL Quincy, IL: St. Peter's Church Rock Island, IL: St. Joseph's Rutland, IL: Sacred Heart (1910, now in Sacré-Coeur Retreat, Magnolia, IL)  Saumonauk, IL: St. John's Church Walton, IL: (Fr. C.F. Conley) West Brooklyn, IL: (Fr. M. Krug) Woodstock, IL: St. Mary's Church Anthon, IA: (Fr. Geo. Cooke) St. Joseph Catholic Church (1912) Bellevue, IA: St. Joseph's Church (1910) Anton, IA: (Fr. Geo. Cooke) Cedar Falls, IA: St. Patrick's Council Bluffs, IA: Chapel at St. Bernard's Hospital Davenport, IA: St. Paul's Dubuque, IA: St. Joseph's College New Chapel Lyons, IA: St. Boniface Mapleton, IA: St. Mary's Marcus, IA: Holy Name Church (1916) Mary Hill, IA: Visitation Mt. Carmel, IA: (Fr. F.H. Huesmann) Riverside, IA: St. Mary's Catholic Church (1906)[6] Rock Valley, IA: St. Mary's Catholic Church (1915) Salix, IA: St. Joseph Parish (1926)[7] Sheldon, IA: St. Patrick's Church (1912) Waterloo, IA: Sacred Heart Church West Point, IA: The Assumption Worthington, IA: (Fr. J.H. Schilmoeller) Plymouth, IN: (Fr. J. Tremmel) Arkansas City, KS: Sacred Heart Church (1920)[8] Concordia, KS: Nazareth Academy Sacred Heart Chapel (1907) Horton, KS: (Fr. Jos. Hildebrand) Kansas City, KS: Holy Name Lawrence, KS: St. John the Evangelist Church (1924)[9] Maryville, KS: St. Mary's Church Olmitz, KS: (Fr. John Huna) Rosedale, KS: (Fr. A. Dornseifer) Holy Name Church St. Mary's, KS: Immaculata Chapel Victoria, KS: Basilica of Saint Fidelis (1916)[10] Winchester, KY: St. Joseph's Church Adrian, MI: Adrian Dominican Motherhouse-Holy Rosary Chapel (1908)[11] Battle Creek, MI: St. Philip's Church Detroit, MI: Chapel St. Francis Home for Boys Detroit, MI: Our Lady of the Rosary Fowler, MI Most Holy Trinity Church (1916)[12]  Gross Point Farms, MI: St. Paul Catholic Church (1924)[13] Hudson, MI: Sacred Heart Church (1905)[14] Ionia, MI: (Fr. H.D. McCarthy) Menominee, MI: St. John the Baptist Catholic Church (1921, now Menominee Co. Historical Museum)[15] Saginaw, MI: St. Joseph Catholic Church (1923)[16] Wyandotte, MI: Our Lady of Mount Carmel (1915)[17] Lismore, MN: St. Anthony's Church Easton, MN: (Fr. C. Hennekes) Hannibal, MO: (Fr. D.F. O’Sullivan) Louisiana, MO: St. Joseph's Montrose, MO: (Fr. William Hovestadt) Billings, MT: St. Patrick Co-Cathedral Bozeman, MT: Holy Rosary Grand Forks, ND: St. Mary's (1914)[18][19] Grand Forks, ND: St. Michael's Ewing, NE: (Fr. Joseph Rose) Madison, NE: (Fr. E.S. Muenich) Omaha, NE: St Patrick's Church O’Neill, NE: St. Patrick's Paul, NE: (Fr. C. Broermann) Schuyler, NE: St. Augustine's Church Stuart, NE: St. Boniface Church Waverly, NY: St. James Church Cleveland, OH: (Rev. John Becha, St. Adalbert) Cleveland, OH: Holy Rosary Cleveland, OH: Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Columbus, OH: St. Dominic Church New Berlin, OH: St. Augustine Church Tiffin, OH: St. Joseph Tiffin, OH: St. Mary Tippecanoe City, OH: Immaculate Conception Church Youngstown, OH: Sacred Heart of Jesus Church Perry, OK: St Rose of Lima. Stroseperry.com Ambridge, PA: St. Stanislaus Church (1929, windows relocated to Good Samaritan Church, Ambridge[20]) Cambridge Springs, PA: St. Anthony's Church Conemaugh, PA: Sacred Heart Church (1923, now Church of the Transfiguration)[21]  Moscow, PA: St. Catherine of Siena (1924) Pittsburgh, PA: All Saints Church Warren, PA: (Fr. M.J. Orzechowski) Huron, SD: (Fr. D. Desmond) Memphis, TN: (Fr. W.G. Scanlon) St. Agnes Academy? Athens, WI: St. Anthony's Church Decada, WI: (Fr. C. Flasch) Luxemburg, WI: Immaculate Conception Church Milwaukee, WI: St. Augustine's Church Milwaukee, WI: The Jesu Church Mineral Point, WI: St. Paul's Church New Munster, WI: St. Alphonsus New Munster, WI: St. Mary's Church Sparta, WI: St. Patrick's St. Francis, WI: St. John's Institute Sturgeon Bay, WI: St. Joseph Church (1910)[22] Waterford, WI: (Fr. Thomas Hennessey) Waterford, WI: (Fr. J.P. Pierron) Mannington, WV: St. Patrick's Rectory Munich Studio of Chicago catalogs and advertising
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