A Dying Art
by Gabriele Sitzenstock

Gabriele Sitzenstock drops by to explain how she made it from apprentice
stained glass painter, to master glass painter, to owner of Gabriel Studios.

At the early age of 7 years, I discovered my love and desire to paint and draw, and in my teens I decided to study freelance painting at the Academy of Art in
Hamburg, Germany.

Unfortunately, my parents decided being a freelance artist would never pay for anything and to quote my Dad "...this is not a real profession to begin with."

One day we were picking up my older brother from the Stained Glass Studio, where he had started an apprenticeship to be a journeyman glazier, and there for the first time I laid eyes on painted stained glass work.

I knew then where I wanted to go. I researched the location and reputation of two glass art academies in Germany and decided to study at the Erwin Stein Glass Academy in Hadamar, Germany. This is how my journey began, and today some 20 years later I am
the owner of Gabriel Studios located in Southern California, where I am using Old World craftsmanship and my passion for painting to push the art of glass-painting to its limits. To see more of my work, click here.

More on stained glass at New York Carver:

The Stained Glass Painter