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The wide variety of religious bodies represented is very indicative of the range of Sattler's rich background in religious iconography: Catholic (Irish and Polish), Episcopal, Greek Orthodox, Jewish, Lutheran and Romanian Orthodox. Sattler has also done some non-liturgical work, specifically a memorial window at the Mardigan Library of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Vera has worked in a variety of media including copper enameling, slumped and fused glass, pen & ink, watercolors, collages and acrylic painting. She has taught some of these media for the Birmingham-Bloomfield art Association and as St. Clair College in Chatham, ONT, Canada. including food, flowers or fruit with appropriate background settings. Sattler's artwork has been exhibited in many Michigan juried shows. Since the mid 1980's, when her husband retired, she has been very active in the art community in Florida, where she now lives. Her work is shown in various galleries across the country and she has become known for her incredible one-of-a-kind slumped glass fish. | Even though Vera Sattler has moved away from Michigan, her spirit lives on in the marvelous stained glass of all the churches and other buildings where her work is located. |
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Vera Sattler was born in West Berlin, Germany and immediately after World War II had a 3-year apprenticeship in designing and painting stained glass. She then came to Michigan in 1951 and attended Wayne State University in Detroit where she received a B.S. degree in art. By 1964, she went to work for Detroit Stained Glass Works where she was very involved in the restoration of older windows. After this studio closed in 1970, she started her own studio where she designed church windows that were for the most part fabricated by the Steven Frank (West) Studio in Livonia, MI under the ownership of longtime glass man Leo Weeg. Many of these churches have been documented for the Michigan Stained Glass Census. |
