Georg Heinrich Crola
Elisabeth Concordia Crola, born Frankel, ( born September 28, 1809 in Berlin, † June 8, 1878 in Ilsenburg ) and Georg Heinrich Crola (actually Croll ), ( * June 6, 1804 in Dresden, † May 6, 1879 in Ilsenburg ) was a German artist couple and creatively active as a painter and draftsman. Her son Hugo Crola ( born November 30, 1841 in Bracknell ( resin ); † 30 June 1910 in Blankenburg ( Harz) ) was also a painter.
Biography
Elisabeth Concordia Frankel
Elise was the daughter of Berliner Bank Men's Joseph Maximilian Frankel and his wife Caroline Sophie Elisabeth von Haller. In Fraenkel house the art has been sympathetically maintained and there was the Berlin artists always open. So the young Elise had early contact with such well-known men like Carl Joseph Bega, the father of Reinhold Bega, Christian Daniel Rauch, Friedrich Wilhelm von Schadow, who was a close friend of his father, the historical painters Bendemann and Hübner and others. She showed up and was gifted at a very early drawing lessons from the painter carpenter. Wilhelm von Schadow advised the parents desperately to let the talented girls partake in a systematic art education.
The religious and philosophical education received Elise by Friedrich Schleiermacher, who already was a professor of theology at the Friedrich- Wilhelm University at that time.
The artistic development of Elise learned a break, as it runs counter to the will of the Father, with 16 years to several years older Baron von Weiher married, childless marriage was in 1836 but divorced again.
After separation, the young woman withdrew more and more, and devoted himself deposited on the land entirely of artistic work. Its motto was " work brings blessing." In particular, she loved the resin and the Ilse valley, where she was very much, and took in Ilsenburg quarters.
Georg Heinrich Croll
Georg Heinrich, son of Dresdner large merchant Croll, lost at the age of four years his parents and was raised by the parents of his mother in Meissen. The grandfather Johann Karl Maucksch was porcelain, Bataillen, livestock, hunting, landscape and architectural painter at the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory, at the same time drawing teacher at the Meissen Prince's School St. Afra.
Young Henry suffered as a child from an eye condition and often had to stay away from the school, but much remained outdoors on. He often roamed the scenic surroundings of Meissen and got an eye for the beauties of nature. Evening in his garret he captured the impressions of the day on the drawing board, but what he initially hid before the grandfather.
When Henry was 17 years old, the grandfather finally came but the secret of his grandson and told him at the Dresden painters Johann Christian Klengel and Johann David Schubert, who took him into their care and also gave the opportunity, at the Dresden Academy to hospitieren.
To take quarters in Dresden, Henry lacked the means, and so he walked several times a week from Meissen to Dresden and back what his understanding of the landscape and in particular the view of how the always same environment to the different day - and seasons changing, extremely sharpened.
1822 died Grandfather. Henry would have been talented enough to take over its positions on the porcelain factory and the Prince's School and thereby have a steady income, but he wanted to be a " painter of battle " and said it would be advantageous in as a volunteer in the Prussian artillery rather Berlin login. However, this did not want him.
Henry emigrated to guitar playing meals deserving back to Meissen and changed his name to Crola to escape the Saxon military service. He gave drawing lessons and continued his studies in Dresden.
1825 Henry moved to Dresden. Here he became a pupil of Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen Dahl and grew into the famous district of Dresden Romantics. For his livelihood, however, he had to work as a painter doses at a Dresden factory and so it was a lucky circumstance that in 1828 the Duke of Coburg -Gotha, the Saxon Crown Prince some work Crolas saw that pleased him very well. So Henry got to paint the order, castles and landscapes in the area of Gotha.
Soon, however, he described the commissioned painting as a " comet tail life," was again a secure existence on, left Dresden in 1828 and went on tour. The beauty of the resin I really fell for him, above all the Ausgangstal the Ilse Ilse and castle, where he took an apartment.
In the summer of 1829 allowed him Count of Stolberg- Wernigerode Henrich, set up his painter's workshop in the Wernigerode Castle. With the works of this period, especially the sunset on the Brocken and the images from Christianental in Wernigerode, he scored some success on art exhibitions in Hamburg and Dresden and could also sell some pictures.
Now again on behalf of the Duke of Coburg -Gotha, he painted in Styria, in the Salzkammergut and the Tyrol, but now also found buyers in Munich for his paintings, and so he spent there from 1830 a number of successful years. 1838 brought him his Wanderlust on the Rhine, where he met the Düsseldorf School, continue in the Teutoburg Forest and finally back to Ilsenburg.
When he wanted to move into his old Ilse Burger quarters again, lived there, however, a baroness pond from Berlin. This coincidence was the Crolas of momentous importance.
Life Together
The painter Julius Hübner gave Henry a visit to the home Frankel in Berlin. Here he admired paintings and drawings Elise, all the more because he previously did not really have a high opinion of painting women.
Between Elizabeth Concordia and Georg Heinrich, an extraordinary affection, which eventually led to the covenant of marriage on October 23, 1840 developed. The connection between the two was both familiar and artistically under a very lucky star.
1841 Elise gave birth to her first son, whom they christened Hugo and the later history painter and professor at the Düsseldorf school of painting was. The debut was followed by four other siblings, the opposite the Castle of Ilsenburg filled the 1847 acquired by purchase " Crola " house with life, yet the couple Crola found time for many common trips to Switzerland, Italy and Norway and also in Germany were Munich, Berlin and Dresden frequently visited destinations. For many artists, they talked friendly relations, mentioned here are only William of Kügelgen and Ludwig Richter, her house was always a center of artistic and social life in the county of Wernigerode.
But the Crolas were also socially very active, so donated Elise eg an "old parlor " in Ilse castle.
Henry, who preferred the nickname George in later years, was finally able to work only with the use of strong glasses and so he painted his last picture in 1867. It is titled " overlooking the Ilsetal and the Brocken from the blast furnace ."
At the age of 68 years, Elise died. Some time after the death of his wife suffered Georg Heinrich a stroke from which he recovered first, but then he died without acute illness.
The two Crolas had always been very religiously inclined people. Their final resting place is located on the Ilse Burger Cross cemetery at the foot of a crucifixion group, a plastic that had been cast by Adam Krafft in Munich and which had brought the Crolas from their travels, restored and donated to the evangelical community Ilse castle.
Work
The complete works of Crolas is extensive:
From Elise, there are well over 2,000 drawings, including a very well-known cycle of the biblical story. She created portraits of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Ludwig Tieck and Henriette Herz, Friedrich Julius Stahl and Peter von Cornelius.
Furthermore, it has created a large number of sculptures, including a bust of Herder's granddaughter Amalie, with which they had been friends, and BA Huber.
In the design of porcelain devices themselves, vases and tableware, Elise also developed great skill. Thus the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV personally bought a large tableware with her and received on the occasion of his silver wedding of the Crolas a large Etruscan vase made by Elise on which the wedding was shown at Cana, to the present.
Georg Heinrich created about 270 paintings and many drawings.
The works of Crolas can be seen, inter alia, in:
Wernigerode Castle Museum, Hüttenmuseum Ilsenburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunsthalle Kiel, Neue Pinakothek Munich, collection Schaefer Schweinfurt.