 Daniel Lindtmayer, born in 1552 in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, was the fourth generation or more of artists who studied under his father, Felix Lindtmayer a glass painter.Daniel became a stained glass window designer and mural painter.He was also influenced by Tobias Stimmer, an engraver, who had a workshop in Schaffhausen and then moved to the cosmopolitan city of Basel.