Alexander Straehuber

Alexander Strähuber or (Straehuber); (1814–1882) was an Austrian-born German history painter and book illustrator. From 1865 to 1882 he was a professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich.

Strähuber was born on 28 February 1814 at Mondsee in Upper Austria. He was son to Alexander Strähuber, a stable master to the Wrede barony of Bavaria.

At the age of seven he moved to Munich with his parents and attended grammar school. After showing a talent for drawing, he transferred to the Munich Polytechnic School (Polytechnische Schule München), founded in 1828, where he received drawing lessons from Joseph Anton Rhomberg and Hermann Mitterer. In 1829 he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, becoming a student of the history and biblical subject painters Heinrich Hess and Clemens von Zimmermann, and the Nazarene Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Von Carolsfeld entrusted Strähuber with individual commissions for painting in the royal palace of the Munich Residenz. and with Johann Georg Hiltensperger and Hermann Anschütz he taught in the antiquities class; among his students were Wilhelm Leibl, Franz Widnmann, Julian Fałat and Robert Raudner. In 1879 he was awarded the Order of Saint Michael. and became a professor at the Munich Royal School of Applied Arts. Julius Strähuber, studied at the Munich Polytechnic School (Polytechnische Schule München).

Strähuber died on 31 December 1882 in Munich, and was buried in the Alter Südfriedhof (Old South Cemetery), in Munich. In 1947 Strähuberstrasse, in the Solln district of Munich, was named after him.