Herbert Dimmel was born in Ried in 1894. His father was a lawyer. During the First World War he was a prisoner of war in Siberia, where he began to draw in order to overcome his despair. On his return he studied with Professor Ferdinand Andri at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and became an assistant lecturer in mural painting. He joined the Innviertel Artists’ Guild and worked in particular with Wilhelm Dachauer, Aloys Wach and Louis Hofbauer. Dimmel's work primarily comprised frescoes, mosaics, sgraffito, stained glass and numerous oil paintings. He taught at the Linz School of Art from 1945 to 1971. In 1959 he stepped back from his post of director in order to concentrate on his own work again. 

Dimmel’s later work – represented here by 9 tempera compositions – is characterised by mystical symbolism. 

Herbert Dimmel died in 1980.