Wilhelm Simmler

Wilhelm Carl Melchior Simmler (6 September 1840 – 8 December 1923) was a German painter and illustrator of the Düsseldorf school of painting.

There, he was a student of Emil Hünten, Karl Ferdinand Sohn, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, Christian Köhler and Eduard Bendemann, among others.

This was followed in 1882 by the Orient Panorama "Entry of the Mecca Caravan into Cairo" by Simmler and Themistokles von Eckenbrecher (118 × 15 metres) for the city of Hamburg.

[3] For the Ruhmeshalle Berlin he completed around 1891, he produced the mural Übergang über das Kurische Haff vom 19.

Simmler also produced illustrations for children's and youth books[4] such as the originals of the colour prints for an edition of The Adventures of Baron von Münchhausen by Gottfried August Bürger.