Themistokles von Eckenbrecher

Karl Paul Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (17 November 1842, Athens – 4 December 1921, Goslar) was a German landscape and marine painter, in the late Romantic style.

[1] Despite having married Johanna Stever, the daughter of a landowner from Mecklenburg, in 1875, he was travelling almost continuously; throughout Europe and the Middle East.

After a trip to Egypt in 1881, he and his colleague, Wilhelm Simmler, created an Orientalist panorama called "Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo" (118x15 meters, roughly 387x49 feet) for the city of Hamburg.

[2] In addition to his paintings, he designed postcards for the Deutsches Kolonialhaus and various passenger ship companies.

His son, Gustav Heinrich (1876-1935), spent much of his life as a farmer near Okombahe, in what was then South West Africa.