This presentation was created for a program at the Boynton Beach City Library. Prior to the presentation, attendees took a narrated bus tour to local sites featuring the stained glass artwork of Conrad Pickel.

1. Conrad Pickel
The stained glass artist’s life and vision!
Presented by Janet DeVries

2. Munich, Germany
Courtesy World Book Encyclopedia
Courtesy Stock Free Images

3. Boynton Beach
Late 1950s

9. Visionary Designs

13. Pickel – Decralite
Construction material

14. Industrial Units

15. Decrolite Blocks used in construction

17. Auto Body Shop

18. Gallery Fantasia

22. Boynton Beach Center for the
Arts

23. “If you don’t have a
cultural center
of a City
t’s just an empty shell.”

24. 1979 Image Courtesy of the Palm Beach Post Archives

26. “It’s the only art where
the artist can’t see his
work until it’s installed.”

27. 1981 Image Courtesy of the Palm Beach Post Archives
Largest stained glass window in Florida

30. “I am a fanatic.
I work day and
night when I
get ambitious.”

31. Decralite “Glowing Bricks”

32. Resurrection Cemetery

33. Resurrection Cemetery

34. Boynton Memorial Park

36. Mausoleum at Boynton
Memorial Park

37. Mausoleum at Boynton
Memorial Park

44. Loaned from Heaven

45. Loaned from Heaven

47. “I do so many religious
things, once in a while, I
have to draw a nude to
keep my mind in
balance.”

50. “We’re in the art field,
but our art, unlike most
art,
is appreciated every
week by thousands of
people, consciously and
unconsciously.”

51. Stained Glass in at least 600 churches

52. St. Mark Catholic Church

53. St. Joseph’s Episcopal Church

54. Ascension Lutheran Church

55. Ascension Lutheran Church

58. “People don’t know how
beautiful the world is,
they have to learn about
it. It’s especially up to
the artist to bring
something very
important to life.”

59. Born -10 February 1906 Died - 14
October 1994