Viewing Object

Object Description

Object ID

1995.030.475

Artist

Dangelmaier, Rudi

Title

Landry homestead on the Summerland Flats, near Summerland.

Date

1972

Description

This house originally consisted of a kitchen, bedroom, and livingroom under a thick sod roof. Eventually a master bedroom was built and then a children's room. Dr. Irving, a surgeon in the Summerland area was born in this house. In the 1970's this house was used as a cottage for summer guests. (pg 16: from, Pioneer Buildings of BC, by Rudi Dangelmaier, 1989)

Medium

Watercolour.

People/Subject

Dangelmaier, Rudolph "Rudi"

Rudi Dangelmaier was born in Germany in 1909. He trained as a designer, artist and teacher in Stuttgart, Munich and Ulm. He came to Canada in 1929. While living in Saskatchewan, he met and married his wife, Margaret. The couple had two sons. They moved to BC in 1937. Here he worked in Vancouver as an architectural designer and establishing himself as an artist. In 1976 the BC Provincial Museum sponsored an exhibit of his paintings, and they travelled the province for two years. In 1989 a collection of his paintings was published in "Pioneer Buildings of British Columbia." Rudi and Margaret moved to Langley in 1980. He passed away on December 24, 199

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