Johannes Schreiter was born in Buchholz, Germany, in 1930. From 1949 - 1957 he studied in Münster, Mainz and Berlin. From 1960 - 1963 he worked at the Staatliche Kunsthochschule Bremen. From 1963 - 1987 he was professor at the Staatlichen Hochschule für bildende Künste in Frankfurt am Main, from 1971 - 1974 as its director. Since then glass painting has been the centre of his art. The architecture, the concrete space and its function, always form the point of departure for his work. He made windows (among others) for St. Marien/Lübeck, the Heiliggeistkirche Heidelberg, the Melanchthonkirche Mannheim, St. Nikolai/Lüneburg, the Marktkirche Goslar, the Dom of Frankfurt/Main and for churches in other countries in Europe, the US, Japan, Australia and New-Zealand. Also his expositions, publications and positions as guest lecturer in Germany and elsewhere deserve mentioning. A grave illness forced him to give up his chair in 1987. At the moment he lives in Langen (Hessen).