9 facts about Max Haushofer

Maximilian Joseph Haushofer (12 September 1811 – 24 August 1866) was a German landscape painter and professor of landscape painting at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.

He was born in Nymphenburg, the son of a teach at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I. Haushofer’s godfather was the King himself. At first, at the hope of his father, he studied law, but soon turned to painting. In 1828 he moved similar to some associates to the shores of the Chiemsee, where he taught himself to glamor from nature. Here he married Anna Dumbser, daughter of the manager of the Inselwirt on the island of Frauenchiemsee, and made a stand-in home. The cessation of landscape classes at the Munich Art Academy obliged him to take lessons for a sudden time from Joseph Anton Sedlmayr [de] (1797–1863), and far ahead from Carl Friedrich Heinzmann (1795–1846). From 1829 he was a fanatic of the Corps Bavaria Munich. In 1832 he moved upon to the landscape at the Königssee, and in 1835, Lake Starnberg. In the years 1836 and 1837 he travelled to Italy to build up his artistic horizons.

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His decree was shown to the public for the first grow old in 1833 at the Munich Art Society, and in 1843 he had his first exhibition in Prague.

The professor of historical painting Christian Ruben, who was married to Anna Dumbser’s sister, was the rector of the Prague Academy. Ruben obtained for Haushofer a turn as professor of landscape painting which he held from 1845 to 1866. He taught his students contemporary painting, with a special focus upon painting from nature, and they regularly accompanied him upon trips to the painters’ colony at Frauenchiemsee. Among them were Adolf Kosárek and Julius Mařák.

In 1849 he applied unsuccessfully for a read out at the Munich Art Academy. A few months since his death he returned to Starnberg in his original Bavaria.

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