Alfred Haushofer

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Alfred Haushofer ( March 16, 1872 in Munich - July 4, 1943 in Seebruck am Chiemsee ) was a German landscape painter , draftsman and illustrator .

Life

Alfred Maximilian Joseph Haushofer was a son of the professor for economics and statistics at the Polytechnic University in Munich , Max Haushofer Jr. , and his first wife Adelheid, nee Fraas. Alfred Haushofer's siblings from this marriage were the geographer Karl Haushofer and the painter and women's rights activist Marie Haushofer . In 1902 the father married Marie's friend, the writer Henriette Emma Merk, in his second marriage . The painter Maximilian Haushofer Sen. (1811–1866) was Alfred Haushofer's grandfather, the writer and resistance fighter against National Socialism Albrecht Haushofer was his nephew.

Haushofer attended the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1882 to 1888 . On April 29, 1891, he entered Gabriel Hackl's nature class at the Munich Art Academy and was enrolled here until at least the summer semester of 1892.

On August 10, 1907, he married Mathilde Luber, the daughter of a Nuremberg glove manufacturer, who brought a son into the marriage. In 1905 the daughter Margarete was born, in 1907 the daughter Marie Elisabeth. In 1907 Alfred Haushofer signed up for Frauenchiemsee and began building his own house in Seebruck am Chiemsee , into which the family moved. During the First World War , Haushofer was drafted as captain of the reserve and earned the Iron Cross II. Class and the Bavarian Military Merit Order .

Alfred Haushofer died at the age of 71 and was buried on the island of Frauenchiemsee.

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Alfred Haushofer found his motifs mainly in the landscape at the Chiemsee and in its surroundings and mainly used the techniques of watercolor and tempera painting (gouache). As an illustrator, he provided humorous drawings for the Munich magazines Jugend and Fliegende Blätter ; Original drawings include the guest book of Baroness Julie von Wendelstadt in Schloss Neubeuen and the last two volumes of the Frauenwörth artist chronicle .

He showed his work in the Münchner Kunstverein and from around 1912 in the Munich annual exhibitions in the Glaspalast . In 1920 he was one of the co-founders of the artist group Die Frauenwörther with Hiasl Maier-Erding , Thomas Baumgartner and Constantin Gerhardinger , who later joined Rudolf Sieck , Rudolf W. Groeschl and Albert Stagura (1866–1947). From 1921 he exhibited with the Frauenwörthern in the Torhalle on Frauenchiemsee.

Selection of works

  • Alpine landscape / autumn landscape , gouaches: Official catalog of the 1912 Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast, No. 685/686
  • Herbst am Chiemsee , watercolor: Illustrated catalog of the XI. international art exhibition, Munich 1913, No. 1238
  • Foehn mood , oil; Chiemsee im Nebel , gouache: Munich annual exhibition in the Glaspalast 1914, No. 910/911
  • Winter day at the Chiemsee / early spring at the Chiemsee / spring evening at the Chiemsee , gouache: Munich annual exhibition 1918, Royal Glass Palace (MKG), No. 553-55
  • Fishing boats on Frauenchiemsee , gouache: Munich annual exhibition 1919, Royal Glass Palace (MKG), No. 404
  • Winter morning at Chiemsee , tempera: Munich Art Exhibition 1929 in the Glaspalast, No. 571
  • Mahrental with high ice , tempera: Munich Art Exhibition 1930 in the Glaspalast, No. 953
  • Morning mood at Chiemsee , tempera: Rosenheim, Städtische Galerie

literature

  • From the state of Tyrol. In pictures by Franz von Defregger. Descriptions by Max Haushofer. Landscape sketches by Alfred Haushofer. Hanfstaengl, Munich (1895)
  • Dressler's art manual 1921
  • Bruckmann's Lexicon of Munich Art. Munich painter in the 19th century. Vol. 5. Munich 1993 (Fig.)
  • Hans Heyn: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands . Rosenheim 1979, p. 223
  • Fritz Aigner: Painter on the Chiemsee . Prien 1983, pp. 264 ff, 366; (Fig.)
  • Siegfried Weiß : Art career aspiration. Painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Former students of the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1849 to 1918 . Allitera Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-86906-475-8 , pp. 243–247 (Fig.)
  • Exhibition catalog Torhalle, Frauenchiemsee. A century of Chiemsee painting . 1979, No. 16
  • Exhibition catalog Torhalle, Frauenchiemsee. Die Frauenwörther , 1980, p. 58
  • Exhibition catalog Städtische Galerie Rosenheim: South German painting from the Bavarian highlands . Rosenheim 1981, No. 45, 46
  • Exhibition catalog Torhalle, Frauenchiemsee. Alfred Haushofer Memorial Exhibition , 1992 (Foreword: Fritz Aigner)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ July 11, 1844 - March 28, 1872; Daughter of Munich university professor Carl Fraas (1810–1875)
  2. ↑ 1854–1925, sister of the painter Eduard Merk (1816–1888)
  3. ↑ Maximiliansgymnasium Munich (Ed.): Annual reports 1882/83 to 1887/88
  4. ↑ 00816 Alfred Haushofer, matriculation book 1884–1920, Munich, Akademie db K. (online)
  5. ^ Mathilde Elisabeth Franziska Luber (* Nuremberg November 17, 1872), daughter of Johannes Paul Luber, glove manufacturer, and Elisabeth, née. Wiesner
  6. ↑ † 1979; mated with Ludwig Benedikt Freiherr von Cramer-Klett (1906–1985)
  7. ↑ † 1990; mated with Rainer Freiherr von Gemmingen (1908–2001)
  8. ↑ Obituary, in: Münchner Latest Nachrichten, No. 185, July 5, 1943, p. 6
  9. ↑ Vol. III, January 26, 1896 - September 2, 1900: Portrait of a boy
  10. ^ Die Künstlerchronik von Frauenchiemsee, Volume IV (1902–1932); Volume V (from 1932)
  11. ↑ cf. Joseph Kirchner (Ed.): Münchener Rundschau for Art, Crafts, Industry etc., 6th year, Dec. 1908, p. 13

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personal data
SURNAME Haushofer, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German landscape painter, draftsman and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH 4th July 1943
Place of death Seebruck am Chiemsee