Von Carolsfeld entrusted Strähuber with individual commissions for painting in the royal palace of the Munich Residenz.

[1] In 1860 Strähuber was one of the founding members of Munich's Vereins für Christliche Kunst (Association for Christian Art), of which he was the first chairman from 1866 until his death.

In 1862 he began work as an assistant teacher at the Royal Academy, and in 1865 was appointed professor,[2] 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.

[1] In 1844 he married Magdalena Stahl, daughter to a Bavarian court musician; the marriage produced three sons, Max, Sigmund, and Julius.

[1] Max Strähuber studied science and theology and became a chaplain to St Ludwig's Church, Celle.