Max Haushofer

This article is about the painter. For the economist of the same name (his son), see Max Haushofer Jr.

“Roggentrud” , painting by Max Haushofer.

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

Life

He was born as the son of a private tutor at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph , who also took over his sponsorship. He studied at the request of his father jurisprudence , but by no means corresponded to his tastes. He turned to painting at an early age . In 1828 he and a few friends moved to the Chiemsee , where he autodidactically practiced drawing in front of nature. There he created a temporary home for himself through his marriage to Anna Dumbser, daughter of the Frauenchiemsee island host Daniel Dumbser. The landscape class at the Munich Art Academy was dissolved in 1828. Anyone who still wanted to become a landscape painter had to find a teacher. He took lessons for a short time from Joseph Anton Sedlmayr (1797–1863) and later from the painter Carl Friedrich Heinzmann (1795–1846). In 1832 Haushofer discovered the landscape at Königssee and in 1835 Lake Starnberg for his landscape motifs. In 1836 and 1837 he traveled to Italy to broaden his artistic horizons.

His work was shown to the public for the first time in 1833 at the Münchner Kunstverein and in 1843 he had his first exhibition in Prague .

His brother-in art professor Christian Ruben (married to Anna Dumbsers sister), who was rector of the Academy of Prague, where the class of historical painting led him suggested for the class of landscape painting as a teacher, he 1845-1866 twenty years supervised. He taught his students in the spirit of contemporary painting - with special attention to plein air painting - painting in front of nature. His students regularly accompanied him on holiday excursions to the Frauenchiemsee painter's colony, which he is considered to be the initiator and which was founded two years before the Barbizon school .

It is said that all Bohemian landscape painters who were trained during this period were among his students, including the highly talented Adolf Kosárek and 1852/1853 Julius Mařák , who from 1887 to 1899 brought Max Haushofer's landscape class back to life after it was closed in 1866.

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

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

Karl Haushofer (mineralogist) and the one year younger economist and writer Max Haushofer Jr. emerged from his marriage to Anna Dumbser . His son in turn - Max Haushofer Seniors grandson - was the geopolitician Karl Haushofer , whose eldest son Albrecht Haushofer was murdered by the SS for participating in the assassination attempt of July 20, 1944 .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Haushofer, Max . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 87 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Hyacinth Holland :  Haushofer, Max . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 92 f.
• Inge Eichler: Departure into the landscape. The emergence of the artist colonies in the 19th century with special consideration of the Kronberg painter colony. Kronberg Museum Society, Kronberg 1989.
• Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová (Ed.): Czech 19th Century Painting. Catalog of the permanent exhibition, Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia. National Gallery Prague, Prague 1998, ISBN 80-7035-138-1 .
• Julius Mařák and his pupils. In: Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová (ed.): Julius Mařák a jeho žáci. Národní galerie, Prague 1999, ISBN 80-7035-206-X (exhibition catalog).
• Ruth Negendack: Rural bohemian on the banks of the Chiemsee. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung. 2006.

Web links

Commons : Max Haushofer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 170, 283.