In more than a century of working in the ecclesiastical arts, Conrad Schmitt Studios acquired more than 100 stained glass pieces. These works are currently under the stewardship of the Gruenke Foundation, for the purposes of restoration and display.
Category: Collections
The Gruenke Foundation for the Arts has over 70 pieces of artwork in its care. Included are many invaluable pieces dating back centuries. The collection consists of numerous varieties of original sketches, oil paintings, pottery vases, hand-carved and painted corpra and crosses, porcelain figures, Greek Icons, Persian carpets, batiks and tapestries, bronze statues, plaques and candlesticks, mouth blown glass, hand-carved ivory, stained glass panels and swag lamps, mosaics and several 15th Century Gregorian Books on goat skin.
The organization is interested in displaying art works in public museums, art galleries, and charitable organizations.
Your help is needed in the required conservation or restoration work before they could be properly displayed.
16th to 19th Century Fine Arts Collection
Bernard O. Gruenke’s passion for art included collecting fine works of art from around the world. The collection includes beautiful Old Masters pieces.
Erhard Stoettner Collection
This collection includes drawings, paintings, stained glass, and sculpture donated by Ronald Stoettner for care and conservation by the Gruenke Foundation.
Historic Architectural Renderings Collection
The traditional process for designing a stained glass window or decorative interior involves artists’ renderings of the proposed space. Today, these renderings are often completed on a computer, but for more than one hundred years, artists at Conrad Schmitt Studios produced these designs by hand, in pencil, ink, and watercolor. These drawings, dating from as early as 1915, are now under the stewardship of the Gruenke Foundation.