Maximilian Emanuel Ainmiller (14 February 1807 – 9 December 1870) was a German artist and

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. Under the tutorage of

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, director of the royal

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, Ainmiller studied glass painting, both as a mechanical process and as an art, at the

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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

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, and consisted in actually painting the design upon the glass, which was subjected, as each colour was laid on, to carefully adjusted heating. The earliest specimens of Ainmiller's work are to be found in the cathedral of

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. With a few exceptions, all the windows in

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cathedral are from his hand. Specimens may also be seen in

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and

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, and the

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contains some of his finest productions. Ainmiller had considerable skill as an oil-painter, especially in interiors, his pictures of the

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and of

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being much admired, the latter of which is displayed in the gallery of the

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. He is buried in the

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in Munich. Maximilian was also mentor to many famous painters, including future son-in-law

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, and grandfather to dramatist

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, and composer

Heinrich Neal Heinrich Neal (September 11, 1870 – 1940) was a German Kapellmeister at Heidelberg,"History of Lowell and its people, Volume 2" By Frederick William Coburn, p.532 born to the artist David Dalhoff Neal and Marie Ainmiller, and brother to dramatist ...

who was born a few months prior to his death. A street, Ainmillerstrasse, named in his memory, is located in the

district of

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