Ernest Michael Dinkel RWS (1894-1983) - Watercolour Wagon and Goats

Description

A fine and delicate watercolour by the listed artist Ernest Michael Dinkel (1894-1983), entitled 'Old Gloucestershire Wagon and Goats'. The artist has a light technique, depicting goats on a bank with a large old wooden cart in the sun. Unsigned. On watercolour paper.

Condition

In good condition overall. Some light mount burn to the edges.

Size

37.5 x 37.9cm (14.8" x 14.9")
Sheet: 40 x 40.6cm (15.7" x 16")

Artist Biography

Ernest Michael Dinkel (1895-1983) was a painter of landscapes, biblical subjects, flowers and portraits who worked in oil, tempera, watercolour and pencil, and who also worked in stained glass, engraved glass and made sculpture. Born in Huddersfield, of German descent, Dinkel studied at Huddersfield School of Art and at the Royal College of Art 1921-25 and was awarded the Owen Jones Travelling Scholarship to study art and architecture in France and Italy. Dinkel subsequently worked as a painter, graphic designer, glass engraver and stained glass designer.

He worked as an assistant to Ernest William Tristram at the Royal College 1925-40, was principal of the Stourbridge School of Art, 1940-47 and after until his retirement in 1961 as head of the school of design at Edinburgh College of Art. Dinkel designed inn signs and posters, for London Transport and he showed at the RA, NEAC and RWS, with a major exhibition at the Cheltenham Art Gallery in 1980. Examples of his work are in the collection of the Tate Gallery and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh for Holyrood Palace. Michael Dinkel was elected an Associate of the RWS in 1939 and a full member in 1957. Dinkel was an authority on the wall paintings of Canterbury Cathedral and was married to the artist Emmy Dinkel–Keet.