Hugo Crola

Hugo Crola (30 November 1841, Ilsenburg – 30 June 1910, Blankenburg) was a German portrait, landscape and genre painter, associated with the Düsseldorfer Malerschule.

He was the first of five children born to the landscape painting couple, Elise and Georg Heinrich Crola [de] (originally Croll).

Despite having so many children, they found time to travel together; visiting Switzerland, Italy, Norway, and several places in Germany.

When the Exchange was completed, he enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Eduard Bendemann and Wilhelm Sohn.

After winning a gold medal for a self-portrait at the 1873 Vienna World's Fair, he turned almost exclusively to portraits.