Hugo Crola

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Hugo Crola (born November 30, 1841 in Ilsenburg ; † June 30, 1910 in Blankenburg (Harz) ) was a German portrait , genre and history painter from the Düsseldorf School of Painting and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy .

Life

Born as the first of five children to the painter couple Elise (1809–1878) and Georg Heinrich Crola (actually Croll) (1804–1879), he grew up in the “Crola House” at Mühlenstrasse 16 opposite Ilsenburg Castle , which he bought in 1847 . His parents, the Protestant father, found time for many trips together to Switzerland, Italy and Norway, and also in Germany, Munich , Berlin and Dresden were often visited destinations , despite the large number of children . On a trip to Switzerland, Crola painted his father in Engelberg .

He initially devoted himself to architecture and worked under Friedrich Hitzig on the construction of the Berlin Stock Exchange . Hugo Crola switched to painting and went to the art academy in Berlin in 1861/62 , then to the art academy in Düsseldorf in 1862, where he was initially a pupil of Eduard Bendemann , then Wilhelm Sohn . In 1877 he became a teacher for lessons in the parallel class introduced by Peter Janssen in 1876 for drawing based on the living model and in the antique hall, and from 1878 to 1898 professor of landscape painting. In 1880, Hermann Wislicenus was replaced as director of the art academy by an alternating directorate with Hugo Crola, Karl Woermann and Johann Peter Theodor Janssen .

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At the end of the 19th century, Crola was one of the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf School of Painting. His first major work was an altarpiece for the Church of Wahnen in the Courland Governorate . After winning a medal with a self-portrait at the Vienna World Exhibition in 1873 , he turned almost exclusively to portrait painting with portraits of numerous aristocratic personalities and was best known for his artist portraits, including a. with the portraits of the painters Peter Janssen and Eduard Bendemann (1884, in the Berlin National Gallery) and Eduard von Gebhardt (1886, in the Düsseldorf gallery) and the engraver Carl Ernst Forberg . His style was originally based on the Dutch masters of the 17th century, later he worked more impressionist.

Works (selection)

  • 1865: Portrait of his father Georg Heinrich Crolas, Harz Museum Wernigerode
  • 1885: Portrait of the painter Eduard Bendemann, Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf
  • 1886: Portrait of Schmidt's wife
  • 1898: The birthday party
  • 1904: Portrait of Prince Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, Museum Smolensk (Lost Art)
  • Coastal landscape with barrows, Harz Museum Wernigerode

Student (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Hugo Crola  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hugo Crola portrayed his father in Engelberg in 1865 , Harzmuseum Wernigerode, on museum-digital.de, accessed June 17, 2015
  2. ↑ The birthday party (sold), Hugo Crola , on simonis-buunk.nl, accessed on February 24, 2016
  3. ^ Coastal landscape with megalithic tombs, Hugo Crola's last oil painting , on museum-digital.de, accessed on February 24, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Crola, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Croll, Hugo; Crola, Hugo Georg Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German portrait, genre and history painter
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilsenburg (Harz)
DATE OF DEATH June 30, 1910
Place of death Blankenburg (Harz)