Maximilian Joseph Haushofer (12 September 1811 – 24 August 1866) was a German landscape painter and professor of

landscape painting Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent com ...

at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts.

Biography

He was born in

Nymphenburg The Nymphenburg Palace (german: Schloss Nymphenburg, Palace of the Nymphs) is a Baroque palace situated in Munich's western district Neuhausen-Nymphenburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany. Combined with the adjacent Nymphenburg Palace Park it const ...

, the son of a tutor at the court of the Bavarian King Maximilian I. Haushofer's godfather was the King himself. At first, at the wish of his father, he studied law, but soon turned to painting. In 1828 he moved with some friends to the shores of the

Chiemsee Chiemsee () is a freshwater lake in Bavaria, Germany, near Rosenheim. It is often called "the Bavarian Sea". The rivers Tiroler Achen and Prien flow into the lake from the south, and the river Alz flows out towards the north. The Alz flows i ...

, where he taught himself to draw from nature. Here he married Anna Dumbser, daughter of the proprietor of the ''Inselwirt'' on the island of

Frauenchiemsee The island Frauenchiemsee, often called Fraueninsel (), is the second largest of the three islands in Chiemsee, Germany. It belongs to the municipality of Chiemsee in the Upper Bavarian district of Rosenheim, which is the smallest municipality i ...

, and made a temporary home. The cessation of landscape classes at the

Munich Art Academy The Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (german: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, also known as Munich Academy) is one of the oldest and most significant art academies in Germany. It is located in the Maxvorstadt district of Munich, in Bavaria ...

obliged him to take lessons for a short time from (1797–1863), and later from

Carl Friedrich Heinzmann Carl Friedrich Heinzmann (2 December 1795, Stuttgart - 9 July 1846, Munich) was a German landscape and porcelain painter; also known as a lithographer. Life and work He received his initial art lessons from the court painter, . In 1814, he ...

(1795–1846). From 1829 he was a member of the Corps Bavaria Munich. In 1832 he moved on to the landscape at the

Königssee The Königssee is a natural lake in the extreme southeast Berchtesgadener Land district of the German state of Bavaria, near the Austrian border. Most of the lake is within the Berchtesgaden National Park. Description Situated within the Bercht ...

, and in 1835,

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. In the years 1836 and 1837 he travelled to Italy to expand his artistic horizons. His work was shown to the public for the first time in 1833 at the Munich Art Society, and in 1843 he had his first exhibition in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

. 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 position as professor of landscape painting which he held from 1845 to 1866. He taught his students contemporary painting, with a special focus on painting from nature, and they regularly accompanied him on trips to the painters' colony at

. Among them were

Adolf Kosárek Adolf Kosárek (6 January 1830, Herálec – 29 October 1859, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter in the Realist style. Biography His parents were employed as servants by the Trauttmansdorff family. When he was three, his family moved to Ch ...

and

Julius Mařák Julius Eduard Mařák (29 March 1832, Litomyšl – 8 October 1899, Prague) was a Czech landscape painter and graphic designer. Life His father was an auditor and land registrar. His first painting lessons came while he was still in the Gymnasiu ...

. In 1849 he applied unsuccessfully for a post at the Munich Art Academy. A few months before his death he returned to

Starnberg Starnberg is a German town in Bavaria, Germany, some southwest of Munich. It is at the north end of Lake Starnberg, in the heart of the " Five Lakes Country", and serves as capital of the district of Starnberg. Recording a disposable per-cap ...

in his native Bavaria.

Sources

* ''Czech 19th Century Painting'', National Gallery of Prague, 1998 * ''Julius Mařák and his Pupils'', National Gallery of Prague, 1999 * Inge Eichler: ''Aufbruch in die Landschaft: Die Entstehung der Künstlerkolonien im 19. Jahrhundert...'', Museumsgesellschaft Kronberg, 1989 * Ruth Negendack: ''Ländliche Bohème an den Ufern des Chiemsees''. In: Bayerische Staatszeitung, 2006 * *

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