Johann Baptist Straub

Grave of Elisabeth Theresa and Johann Baptist Straub on the old southern cemetery in Munich location

Ceres, around 1772, from the former Palais Törring in Munich

The Korbinian altar of Ettal Abbey with St. Ulrich and St. Rupert , next to it the pulpit

Johann Baptist Straub (born June 1, 1704 (baptism) in Wiesensteig , † July 13, 1784 in Munich ) was a Rococo sculptor .

Life

Johann Baptist Straub came from a family of sculptors. His father Johann Georg Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob , Joseph and Johann Georg were also sculptors. He first learned from 1718 to 1722 in his father's workshop before he worked for another four years in the circle of Munich court art with court sculptor Gabriel Luidl . Under Joseph Effner he made the first decorative works for the Munich residence. Then he went to Vienna, where he learned from 1726 to 1734 in the vicinity of Ignaz Gunst , Christoph Mader , Galli Bibiena , Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach and Raphael Donner and carried out his first major works, for example Madonna, pulpit, pews, organ crowning and several Figures for the Black Spaniard Church .

In 1734 he returned to Munich at the invitation of the court sculptor Andreas Faistenberger . He was appointed court sculptor on June 7, 1737 by Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria. In the same year he married Elisabeth Theresa, daughter of the court engraver Franz Xaver Joseph Späth († December 20, 1774 )

Straub furnished churches and monasteries , especially in Upper Bavaria . Most of his figures are set in white with a little gilding. Important works by Straub can be found in the Residenz in Munich and in Nymphenburg Palace . Ecclesiastical works are the altars of the monastery churches of Andechs and Schäftlarn and the St. Michael Church in Berg am Laim.

Straub's workshop was the most important in Munich at the time. His most important student was Ignaz Günther , as well as Roman Anton Boos and his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt .

tomb

The grave site of Johann Baptist Straub is located on the old southern cemetery in Munich (Gräberfeld Kirche - St. Stefan row - Platz Nordwand-2) location . 48.130666666667 11.566416666667

Trivia

The asteroid 6147 Straub , which was discovered in 1977, is named after Johann Baptist Straub.

Works

1726–1730: with Johann Baptist Mader the spiral reliefs of the two large columns of the Karlskirche in Vienna .
1730: Pulpit of the Schwarzspanierkirche Vienna (in the Laxenburg parish church )
1738–1739: High altar tabernacle in the monastery church of St. Anna im Lehel
1739: Nepomuk figure on Joseph's altar, St. Cyriakus (Wiesensteig)
1739–1741: Side altars and pulpit of the church in Marienmünster Dießen
1741: Tabernacle of the church of the Fürstenzell monastery
1743: High altar and side altars in the parish church of St. Michael in Berg am Laim
1745: Right side altar of the Frauenkirche in Gauting
1748–1757: Side altars in the abbey church of Reisach Abbey
1750: Altars of the church of Andechs Monastery
1752: High altar of the parish church of St. Georg in Bichl
1752–1759: High altar of St. Rasso (Grafrath) in Grafrath
1755–1764: Pulpit and altars of the church of Schäftlarn Abbey
1757–1765: Pulpit and side altars of the monastery church of the Assumption of the Virgin at Ettal Abbey

1763: High altar reconstruction of the Church of the Holy Cross at Polling Monastery

1765–1769: Furnishings for the church of Altomünster Abbey

1770–1773: high altar of St. Georg (Bogenhausen)

approx. 1775: Crucifix, St. Cyriakus (Wiesensteig)

Rococo frame by JB Straub, Ikone, St. Anna monastery church in Munich
Reisach Monastery, scapular altar
High altar of St. Georg, Munich-Bogenhausen
Tabernacle, monastery church St. Anna im Lehel

literature

Peter Volk : Johann Baptist Straub . Hirmer Verlag, Munich 1984. ISBN 3-7774-3650-X .
Wolfgang Winhard: Straub, Johann Baptist. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 11, Bautz, Herzberg 1996, ISBN 3-88309-064-6 , Sp. 24-27. ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Straub - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Johann Baptist Straub in the catalog of the German National Library
Johann Baptist Straub's main work mapped on GoogleMaps

Individual evidence

^ Gravestone in the Old South Cemetery (Munich) . The tombstone on the church wall near the northeast entrance also bears the date of death of Johann Baptist Straub: July 13th, not July 15th, 1784.

personal data
SURNAME	Straub, Johann Baptist
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Rococo sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 1, 1704
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wiesensteig
DATE OF DEATH	July 15, 1784
Place of death	Munich

[1] Gravestone in the Old South Cemetery (Munich) . The tombstone on the church wall near the northeast entrance also bears the date of death of Johann Baptist Straub: July 13th, not July 15th, 1784.