Erwin Aichele (5 May 1887 – 29 June 1974) was a German painter and animal artist from Baden-Württemberg in Southern Germany.
[1] His life and work was the subject of a 1988 monograph, Der Tiermaler Erwin Aichele by Hans Schöner.
He continued his studies in the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, where he was taught by the celebrated animal artist Heinrich von Zügel.
In 1911, Aichele passed his art teaching diploma and started work at the jewelry school in Pforzheim, Southern Germany.
Aichele's last drawing in France is dated May 1918, shortly before a wound and nervous breakdown caused him to collapse into a coma.
In 1934, Aichele was put in charge of the animal drawing class at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe.
In 1931, Erwin, his wife, Marie Charlotte, and three children moved into their new home in the kuenstlerkolonie (artists colony) in the village of Eutingen, near Pforzheim.