George Krause is an American photographer and multidisciplinary artist living and working in Wimberley, Texas. Krause is renowned for receiving the first Prix de Rome and the first Fulbright-Hays grant ever awarded to a photographer, two Guggenheim fellowships, and three grants from the National Endowment of the Arts. His work is held in museum collections worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, France. Krause established the photography department at the University of Houston in 1975, where he taught until his retirement in 1999.