[1] His stained glass, painting, sculpture, furniture, and building design is characterized by neo-Thomism and modernism and is influenced by the writings of Jacques Maritain.
[1] As a student at the University of Notre Dame, he studied under the philosopher Yves Simon[3] and the stained-glass artist Emil Frei, Jr., whose daughter Mary he would soon marry.
[1] The Schickels moved to Loveland, Ohio, so that Mary could be close to Grailville, the national headquarters of the Grail movement of which she was a member.
[1][2][6][7][8] His other liturgical commissions include Bellarmine Chapel at Xavier University in Cincinnati and the Shrine of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne in St. Charles, Missouri, an early example of a church in the round.
[4] Schickel's secular works include the Rotunda of Creation at the Mercy Centers for Health and Wellness in Anderson Township and Fairfield, Ohio,[2] and the Kane County Correctional Complex in Aurora, Illinois.