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Gustaaf Albertus "Staf" Pyl (14 April 1923 – 14 January 2007) was a Belgian ceramist and stained glass artist active primarily in East Flanders, Belgium. He is best known for monumental stained glass and glass-in-concrete works integrated into churches and public buildings. According to art-historical and heritage sources, Pyl belongs to the post-Second World War renewal of Flemish stained glass, characterized by architectural integration and renewed attention to color and light. Like his contemporaries Michel Martens and Armand Blondeel, he was part of a generation of artists who, from the 1970s onward, increasingly approached glass as an artistic medium beyond its traditional ecclesiastical function.