Georg Heinrich Crola

Georg Heinrich Crola (6 June 1804, Dresden - 6 May 1879, Ilsenburg am Harz) was a German landscape painter in the mid-19th century.

Difficult domestic conditions forced his parents to send the four year-old Georg Heinrich to live in the family of his maternal grandfather, who was a painter at the Royal Porcelain Factory and an art teacher at the state boarding school of Meissen.

Around this time he also changed his family name from Croll to Crola so as to avoid conscription by the Saxon government.

He succeeded in capturing the attention of Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Dahl who assisted him in his studies.

He later visited Berlin where he met his future bride Elise (Elisabeth) Concordia, daughter of a banker and an amateur painter herself.