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Julie Mehretu, Uprising of the Sun: float glass painting in a stairwell of the Obama Presidential Center Museum, Chicago

Stained glass and mosaic · since 1847

Mayer’sche
Hofkunstanstalt

Munich and New York. For cathedrals, museums and the artists of our time.

Julie Mehretu, Uprising of the Sun. The Obama Presidential Center Museum, Chicago, 2026.

IThe House

Since 1847 the aim of the Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt has been to create the highest quality, in craft and in art.

1847Founded in Munich, with the privilege of His Royal Majesty
1882Royal Bavarian Court Art Institute, by King Ludwig II
1892A papal title, by Pope Leo XIII
Our history
The house of the Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt on Seidlstraße, Munich

Seidlstraße 25, Munich. The house is in its fifth generation of family ownership.

IIProjects

Recent works

Stained glass and mosaic with the artists of our time, from Chicago to Baltimore, from the museum to the subway.

  1. Julie Mehretu, Uprising of the Sun, The Obama Presidential Center Museum, Chicago
    ’01
    Uprising of the Sun
    Float glass painting
    The Obama Presidential Center Museum, Chicago, 2026
  2. Nick Cave, Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton
    ’02
    Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton
    Glass mosaic, wall relief
    Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, 2024
  3. Dyani White Hawk, Through the Pursuit of Understanding our Connectivity, We Care for Our World, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
    ’03
    Through the Pursuit of Understanding our Connectivity, We Care for Our World
    Float glass painting
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 2025
  4. Victor Ekpuk, Conversation, Bowie State University, Bowie
    ’04
    Conversation
    Mosaic mural
    Bowie State University, Bowie, 2025
  5. Fred Tomaselli, Wild Things, NYC Transit, 14 St Station Complex, New York
    ’05
    Wild Things
    Mosaic murals
    NYC Transit, 14 St Station Complex, New York, 2024
  6. Kiki Smith, River Light, The Water’s Way, The Presence, The Spring and The Sound, Grand Central Madison, New York
    ’06
    River Light, The Water’s Way, The Presence, The Spring and The Sound
    Mosaic murals
    Grand Central Madison, New York, 2022
  7. Kerstin Brätsch, Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Aspen), Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
    ’07
    Fossil Psychic Stone Mimicry (Aspen)
    Mosaic benches of glass, concrete, marble and stone
    Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 2023–2024
  8. Nnenna Okore, an ætiology of things, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
    ’08
    an ætiology of things
    Float glass painting
    The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 2025
All projects
A mosaic in progress on the workshop tables: cobalt blue pieces of glass for Kiki Smith
IIIWorkshop

Material and technique

  • Glass smaltihandmade
  • Glass cakeshandmade
  • Natural stonemarble and stone
  • Antique glassmouth-blown
  • Flashed glassmouth-blown

Machine-made and industrially produced materials are used as well. We are equipped with the most modern machines for working glass and stone.

The studio with its great window
A mosaic of gold and glass smalti, detail

The studio. Gold and glass, detail of a mosaic.

Material and technique
IVEdition

17.0

17Works10Copies of each work170Years

For the 170th anniversary of the Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt: seventeen works in editions of ten. Only the format was limited, to 51 × 51 × 51 cm.

Peter Beard · Geneviève Cadieux · Eric Fischl · Sylvie Fleury · Ruth Gurvich · Ann Hamilton · Jan Hendrix · Vik Muniz · Michele Oka Doner · Jean Pagliuso · David Reed · Clifford Ross · Saskia Schultz · Shahzia Sikander · Kiki Smith · Mike and Doug Starn · Pae White
All seventeen worksAsk for a copy
Peter Beard, Boran Woman, mosaic
Peter Beard, Boran Woman
39 × 47 cm · Edition of 10
Jan Hendrix, Ginkgo Leaf, float glass
Jan Hendrix, Ginkgo Leaf
17 × 17 × 6 cm · Edition of 10
Geneviève Cadieux, La Voix Lactée, micromosaic
Geneviève Cadieux, La Voix Lactée
51 × 20 × 7 cm · Edition of 10
Stained glass with painted heads in a window of the Wunderkammer, lilies in front
VWunderkammer

The Wunderkammer

“Objects of art, of desire, of light and of shadow, of the fragile transparency of glass and the cold hardness of stone.”

Mayer’sche Wunderkammer · opened 2018

  • iSingle pieces
  • iiLimited editions by our house artists
  • iiiHistorical fragments
  • ivIndividual commissions
A hand holding a sphere, glass painted in grisaille, in the Wunderkammer
Enter the Wunderkammer
VIHistory
Stained glass in a window: a head with a harp, angel wings, silver stain and antique blue

Five generations

  1. 1847Joseph Gabriel Mayer founds the institute in Munich, with the privilege of His Royal Majesty.
  2. 1865A house in London.
  3. 1882King Ludwig II grants the institute the title Royal Bavarian Court Art Institute.
  4. 1888A house in New York.
  5. 1892Pope Leo XIII grants the institute a papal title.
  6. 2018The Wunderkammer opens.
  7. TodayThe fifth generation: Michael C. Mayer and Petra W. Mayer.
The history of the house
VIIPress and Publications

Press

Vogue · The New York Times · T Magazine · AD · Weltkunst · Frankfurter Allgemeine · Süddeutsche Zeitung · Die Welt · Monsieur · Harper’s Bazaar · Artforum · Madame · Lufthansa Magazin

Franz Mayer of MunichMonograph
Mayer’sche HofkunstanstaltPublication
LightPublication
Press and publications
VIIIContact

A project begins with a conversation.

Munich

Mayer’sche Hofkunstanstalt GmbH
Seidlstraße 25
80335 München

+49 89 545962-0
info@mayersche-hofkunst.de

New York

Franz Mayer of Munich, Inc.
1123 Broadway, Suite 1006
New York, NY 10010

+1 212 661-1694
+1 888 661-1694, toll-free to Munich

Michael C. MayerOwner
Ari MetzProject management
Walter UptmoorProject management
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