As I work on my Barometer Earthstar mushroom engraving, the thicker black lines of my design remind me of the tracery of some of the stained glass windows I worked on at the Felix Senger Studio in Milwaukee, during the mid-1970s. It was my first and favorite job, Felix & Emma were a remarkable creative team, both emigrating to the US from Germany after World War II. Felix already had been to the states, as a German prisoner of war. As we worked together I heard many stories from them about their lives in Germany & the US.
Emma and Felix Senger. Behind them some icons that Felix painted.
Behind Emma, a cartoon of a slab glass window I was making at the time.
Me, mixing epoxy resin for making one section of the window.
The completed window, 36 feet high, All Saints Mausoleum, Des Plaines, Illinois.
Glass that I cut on the light table. This for church tower windows, St. Raphael’s Cathedral, Madison, Wisconsin.
Some of the completed windows installed.
Windows I helped make (acid etching glass, leading) for St. Raphael’s Cathedral.
Sadly, the cathedral was heavily damaged by a fire and demolished in 2005.