Partikel was born in Goldap, East Prussia and grew up in Szittkehmen.

He attended school in Insterburg and studied at the academy of arts in Königsberg in 1905–07.

[1][2] Partikel worked in Berlin in 1911 until 1921 and served in the German Army in World War I.

He became a Professor for landscape painting at the Königsberg academy of arts in 1929 and was a guest of the Villa Massimo in Rome in 1930/31.

[4][5] There is a memorial stone dedicated to him in Ahrenshoop, donated by his friend and fellow artist Gerhard Marcks.