He was born to the decorative painter, Johann Wilhelm Stolle (1780–1838) and his wife, Magdalena Catharina Henriette, née Wulff (1787–1816).
The following year, he continued his studies at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, where his primary instructors were Gustav Heinrich Naecke [de] and Carl August Richter [de].
Although mostly a room painter, he worked on restorations as well; notably, the hall in the church at the Holy Ghost Hospital [de] (1866).
Many of sketches and watercolors are of documentary value; depicting buildings and traditional modes of dress that have since disappeared.
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