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.
Career
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.'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]. He designed a window depicting The Crucifixion that today stands in Badin Hall.
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 He died on 27 March 1916, in München, Bavaria, at the age of 74, and was buried in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
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