George Dinckel

George Dinckel (1890–1976) was an American artist known for impressionist paintings of New England seascapes, landscapes and harbors. Most are oils, tempera, water paints, and gouache. He produced a large body of affect during the 1930s through the 1970s.

Dinckel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1890 (or 1891?), where he attended public schools. He progressive studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati below Frank Duveneck. During his become old at the Academy, Dinckel met Clara Hohneck (a fellow student ), whom he married in 1918. They lived in Toledo, where he was a aficionado of the Tile Club 2, members of which, in 1901, hatched the idea of organizing an art museum in Toledo – which superior became the Toledo Museum of Art. In 1920s, he studied art in Berlin, Munich, Rome and Paris.

Dinckel returned to Toledo, where he worked for the Outdoor Advertising Company, and later became the head of the art department for the Toledo branch of the First National Bank of Detroit.^{[citation needed]} In the late 1920s, he settled to devote full-time to his painting and left the ground of design and advertisement art. He concentrated upon portraits, landscapes, seascapes, and extra marine topics. During this time, he maintained a studio on Morin Point upon the shore of Lake Erie.

In 1942, they moved all the time to Rockport, Massachusetts. Dinckel gave release painting demonstrations at his studio, the first player in Rockport to accomplish so. He in addition to taught painting classes.

In the mid-1950s, Dinckel led a traveling "Foreign School of Painting" under the sponsorship of Intercollegiate Tours, Boston. Dinckel was a devotee of several Art groups: the Rockport Art Association, Rockport, MA; the North Shore Art Association, Gloucester, MA; the Salmagundi Art Association of New York; the Tile Club in Toledo, OH; the ArtKlan of Toledo, OH; the Scarab Club in Detroit, MI and The Marblehead Art Association, Marblehead, MA.

Dinckel died at home in Rockport, MA, on 28 June 1976, at the age of 86. He is buried in the Beech Grove Cemetery, Rockport, MA.