Max Haider

Max Haider (21 July 1807 in Biederstein, Schwabing, Munich – 21 June 1873 in Munich) was a German huntsman, draughtsman, lithographer, cartoonist and illustrator.

Max Haider
Group going fishing by Max Haider
Born	(1807-07-21)21 July 1807 Biederstein
Died	21 June 1873(1873-06-21) (aged 65) Munich
Nationality	German
Occupation	illustrator

He married Therese Fäßler (1811–1893), and was the father to landscape painter Karl Haider, and grandfather to painter Ernst Haider.^[1]

Haider provided hunting illustrations for the Fliegende Blätter weekly magazine and the Münchener Bilderbogen bi-weekly broadsheet. These illustrations fitted the cultural programme of Maximilian II of Bavaria's belief in reviving regional and national art to awaken a Bavarian national identity, which countered those of his father Ludwig I.

Works by Haider are in the collection of the German Hunting and Fishing Museum in Munich.

Further reading

• Max Haider: Die Jagd, Braun und Schneider, Munich 1862
• Ebnet, Werner; Sie haben in München gelebt: Biografien aus acht Jahrhunderten (They lived in Munich: biographies from eight centuries) Allitera Verlag (20 July 2016) p. 244. ISBN 9783869067445