6064 - Hauber, Joseph

Hauber, Joseph The Holy Family with John the Baptist. Oil on copper plate. 36.5 x 44.5 cm. Signed and dated in the center right: "Jos. Hauber invenit / et Pinxit 1818." Around 1784, Hauber moved to Munich, where he remained for the rest of his life—apart from a brief period of study in Vienna. In 1797, he was appointed to a position at the Drawing School, or Academy of Painting and Sculpture, which was incorporated into the newly founded Munich Academy of Fine Arts in 1808. He taught there until 1826 as a professor of portrait painting. Initially valued in his younger years particularly as a painter of altarpieces and frescoes—he painted more than 30 altarpieces for various churches—he switched, likely for financial reasons (Hauber had 11 children), to the more lucrative and quicker-to-complete field of portraiture, and, until the arrival of Joseph Karl Stieler in 1812, became one of the leading portraitists of the nobility and the city’s dignitaries. Thereafter, he achieved success as a painter of everyday scenes depicting Munich’s middle class, though he remained faithful to religious art throughout his life. Provenance: Private collection, Southern Germany. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.