The Otto F. Andrle Stained Glass and Art Institute Inc.
The Otto F. Andrle Stained Glass and Art Institute was formed in 1913 by Otto F. Andrle and Jacob J. Diebolt with studios at the corner of Johnson Park and Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York.
Among their first major commissions were the windows for St. Mary's Church on Transit Road in Swormville, New York which were produced in 1915. Also produced were the windows for St. Mary Magdalene Church on Fillmore Avenue in Buffalo, including two eighteen by twenty-four foot trancept windows, the largest in the city at the time.
In 1921, the Otto F. Andrle Stained Glass and Art Institute was incorporated with twenty-five thousand dollars of capital stock. The officers were Otto F. Andrle, his brother Aloysius P. Andrle, and Henry Odenwald. The company was formed for the manufacture, production and sale of stained glass windows and other decorative glass, and to do mural painting and decoration and all other incidental work.
About this time, the studios were moved to 35-37-39 East Huron Street where they remained until about 1929. During the period from 1924 to 1926, they produced the windows for St. Gerard's Church and Chapel and St. Brigid's Church in Buffalo and the magnificent windows for Our Lady of Victory Basilica in Lackawanna, New York.
With the onset of the depression, business fell off and in 1930 Otto F. Andrle became associated with the Von Gerichten Studios of Columbus, Ohio and continued work in studios at 84 West Huron Street in Buffalo until his death in 1933.