Andreas Groll was born in 1812; his parents, Anna and JHoseph Paul Groll, were servants. In his thirties he worked at the Viennese Polytechnic Institute under Anton von Schroetter; this was an important institute in the early development of photography, and starting in the 1849s Andreas Groll became an independent photographer. He was known for photographing buildings (perhaps because they didn’t move quickly!).
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He opened his own studio in Vienna in 1857, after being forced to leave the Institute in 1852. he became the most important photographer of architecture in Austria, and a number of his daguerreotypes have survived.
He died of typoid fever in 1872.
Note: his son was also called Andreas Groll, and lived from 1850 to 1907, and was a successful artist and teacher, so there is scope for confusion.
