Carl Maria Seyppel

After an assignment during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 as a nurse in hospitals near Trier and Metz, he undertook study trips to Rhine and Moselle, to Westphalia and Upper Bavaria, to the Black Forest and to England and the Netherlands.

[6] Seyppel painted landscapes including Straße an der Mosel (1870), Mühle am Niederrhein (1872), Windmühle bei Zons (1870), and also portraits, especially those of fellow Düsseldorf painters, but he preferred humorous scenes from folk life.

His "Ancient Egyptian" humoresques printed on "mummy paper" - a predecessor of comics- which were produced from 1882 onwards, became well-known.

[7] He was further involved with texts and/or illustrations in the children's book Vom Storchennest bis zur Schule (1881), Kneipepistel § 11 (1881), Mein Buch (1884), Carmen Silva (commemorative sheets of the Queen of Romania), and Deutsche Märchen für Jugend und Volk (1887).

For the KVM, he drew the portraits of his fellow painters, designed theatre posters for several Bummelstücke - in which he also acted himself - and wrote humorous poems.