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Haushofer, Max
(b Nymphenburg, nr Munich, 12 Sept 1811; d Starnberg am Starnbergersee, nr Munich, 24 Aug 1866). German painter. In his early years he settled at Munich and, with his brother-in-law Christian Ruben, was among the founders of a summer colony of artists on Fraueninsel at Chiemsee. During 1835–7 he was in Italy. The ideally heroic landscapes of Carl Rottmann were a major influence on him, but he was also drawn to more naturalistic trends in the genre. Consequently, a part of his work consists of atmospheric but unsentimental small landscapes, together with plein-air studies of the changing effects of light on the atmosphere and landscape. He gradually turned to larger sizes (e.g. On the Bank of Chiemsee, c. 1858, Prague, N.G., Convent of St Agnes), depicting lakes and also mountain scenes. Haushofer made regular visits to Bavaria and the Tyrol, but he also painted the Bohemian Forest and other parts of Bohemia. From 1845 to 1866 he was professor of landscape painting at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. He retained his connection with Munich painting and like his pupils responded to many other local and central European influences. Some of his students, such as Alois Bubák, followed in his footsteps; others—including Bedrich Havránek, Adolf Kosárek and Julius Marák—went their own ways.
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