Max Haushofer

Maximilian Joseph Haushofer ( born September 12, 1811 in Nymphenburg in Munich, † August 24, 1866 in Starnberg ) was a German landscape painter and professor of landscape painting at the Prague Academy of Arts.

Life

He was born the son of a tutor at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph, who also took over its sponsorship. He studied on his father's jurisprudence, but not quite in keeping with his tastes desire. Early on, he turned to painting. 1828 he moved together with some friends at the Chiemsee, where he practiced self-taught in drawing from nature. There he created through his marriage to Anna Dumbser, daughter of Frauenchiemseer island host Daniel Dumbser, a temporary home. The landscape class at the Munich Art Academy in 1828 disbanded. Who still wanted to be a landscape painter, had to find a teacher. He took lessons for a short time with Joseph Anton Sedlmayr (1797-1863) and later with the painter Carl Friedrich Heinzmann ( 1795-1846 ). 1832 discovered Haushofer the landscape in Koenigssee and 1835 Lake Starnberg for his landscape motifs. In 1836 and 1837 he traveled to Italy to expand his artistic horizons.

His works were first shown in 1833 at the Munich Kunstverein and the public in 1843 he had his first exhibition in Prague.

His brother in law, art professor Christian Ruben ( married to Anna Dumbsers sister), who was rector of the Prague Academy and there directed the history painting class, proposed him for the class of landscape painting as a teacher, he twenty years from 1845 to 1866 supervised. He taught his students in the spirit of contemporary painting - with particular attention to the plein-air painting - painting of nature. His disciples accompanied him regularly during the holiday excursions to the art colony woman Chiemsee, as its initiator, he is, and which was founded two years before the Barbizon school.

It is said that all Czech landscape painter who trained in this period, have one of his students, including the gifted Adolf Košárek and 1852/1853 Julius Mařák which again fulfilled the landscape class of Max Haushofer with life from 1887 to 1899, after they had been closed in 1866.

1849 Max Haushofer applied in vain for a professorship at the Munich Art Academy. A few months before his death he returned to his native Bavaria.

Since 1829 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich.