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'''Hugo Crola''' (30 November 1841 - 30 June 1910) was a German portrait, genre and history painter of the {{Ill|Düsseldorf school of painting|en}} and professor at the [[Kunstakademie Düsseldorf]].

== Life ==
Born in {{Ill|Ilsenburg|en}} as the first of five children of the painter couple {{Ill|Elise und Georg Heinrich Crola|de}} (actually Croll) (1804-1879), Crola grew up in the "Crola House" at 16 Mühlenstraße, opposite the {{Ill|Ilsenburg House|en}}, which was purchased in 1847. His parents, his father a Protestant, found time for many trips together to Switzerland, Italy and Norway despite the large number of children, and in Germany too, Munich, Berlin and Dresden were frequently visited destinations. On a trip to Switzerland, Crola painted his father in [[Engelberg]].<ref>[https://st.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=12015 Hugo Crola portrayed his father in Engelberg in 1865], Harzmuseum Wernigerode, at museum-digital.de, retrieved 11 October 2021</ref>

He first devoted himself to architecture and worked under {{Ill|Friedrich Hitzig|en}} on the construction of the {{Ill|Börse Berlin|en}}. Crola switched to painting and went to the {{Ill|Berlin University of the Arts|en}} in 1861/62, then to the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf in 1862, where he was initially a pupil of {{Ill|Eduard Bendemann|en}}, then of {{Ill|Wilhelm Sohn|en}}. In 1877, he became a teacher to teach the ''parallel class'' for drawing from the living model and in the antique room, introduced by {{Ill|Peter Janssen|de}} in 1876, and from 1878 to 1898 professor of landscape painting. In 1880, {{Ill|Hermann Wislicenus|en}} was replaced as director of the Art Academy by an alternating directorate with Hugo Crola, {{Ill|Karl Woermann|en}} and {{Ill|Peter Janssen|en}}.

Crola died in {{Ill|Blankenburg (Harz)|en}} at the age of 68.

== Werk ==
Crola was one of the most important representatives of the Düsseldorf school of painting at the end of the 19th century. His first major work was an altarpiece for the church at Wahnen in the [[Courland Governorate]]. After winning a medal with a self-portrait at the {{Ill|1873 Vienna World's Fair|en}}, he turned almost exclusively to portraiture with portraits of numerous aristocratic personalities and became known above all for his portraits of artists, including the portraits of the painters Peter Janssen and Eduard Bendemann (1884, in the Berlin National Gallery) and {{Ill|Eduard von Gebhardt|en}} (1886, in the Düsseldorf Gallery) and the engraver {{Ill|Carl Ernst Forberg|en}}. His style was originally in imitation of the Dutch masters of the 17th century, later he worked more impressionistically.

== Work ==
* 1865: Bildnis des Vaters Georg Heinrich Crolas, {{Ill|Harzmuseum Wernigerode|de}}
* 1885: Bildnis des Malers Eduard Bendemann, {{Ill|Stadtmuseum Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf|de}}
* 1886: Bildnis der Frau von Schmidt
* 1898: Die Geburtstagsfeier.<ref>[https://www.simonis-buunk.nl/verkocht/details/Hugo_Crola_11545.aspx/ Die Geburtstagsfeier (verkauft), Hugo Crola], auf simonis-buunk.nl, retrieved 11 October 2021.</ref>
* 1904: Porträt des Fürsten Otto zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, Museum Smolensk (Lost Art)
* Küstenlandschaft mit Hünengräbern, Harzmuseum Wernigerode<ref>[https://nat.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=objekt&oges=18997 Küstenlandschaft mit Hünengräbern, das letzte Ölgemälde von Hugo Crola], on museum-digital.de, retrieved 11 October 2021</ref>

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
* {{Ill|Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon|de}} vol. I, {{p.|128}} (appeared in 19th and 20th century)
* [http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Crola Crola] in ''{{Ill|Meyers Konversations-Lexikon|de}}''
* {{Ill|Ekkehard Mai|de}}: ''Die deutschen Kunstakademien im 19. Jahrhundert: Künstlerausbildung zwischen Tradition und Avantgarde.'' Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-412-20498-3}}, {{p.|204}}
* ''Zur Geschichte der düsseldorfer Kunst insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert.'' Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1902; Hugo Crola pp. 189, 293, 308, [https://archive.org/details/zurgeschichteder00scha/page/n5/mode/1up ''Zur Geschichte der düsseldorfer Kunst insbesondere im XIX. Jahrhundert'']

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