Erhardt Stoettner

Erhardt Stoettner (25 September 1899 – 6 January 1992) was a master craftsman and designer of stained glass windows for the T. C. Esser Studios in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Among the churches with windows designed by Stoettner are: 1939: Mount St. Scholastica Chapel, Atchison, Kansas 1942–1948: Grace Lutheran Church, River Forest, Illinois 1951: Peace Lutheran Church, Oshkosh, Wisconsin 1953: St. Bernard Church, Wabash, Indiana 1953: Zion Lutheran Church, Wausau, Wisconsin, listed on NRHP 1954: St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital, Effingham, Illinois (see history brochure, pp. 24–31) 1957: St. Peter in Chains Cathedral, Cincinnati, Ohio 1964: Norway Lutheran Church, Wind Lake, Wisconsin (see history article pdf, page 108) 1969: Grace Lutheran Church, South Range, Michigan Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Lake Park Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, Wisconsin St. Helen Church, Chicago, Illinois St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, Michigan

In the design and execution of these windows, three noted artists are deserving of recognition. Erhard Stoettner, German craftsman who, among other important works, helped in the restoration of the windows of the Cathedral of Notre Dame at Rheims, was the research artist who selected the colors and regulated other technical details. The design of both windows and figures is the work of Gerard Recke, an American artist, who designed the windows in the chapel of Princeton University. Joseph Freney of Dublin, Ireland, was the artist who painted the faces and figures in the windows.

An archived letter to Stoettner about the price of a window. NOTE: Gerard Recke is also known as Gustave Recke.