Johann Baptist Straub

Johann Baptist Straub (1 June 1704 (baptism) – 15 July 1784) was a German Rococo sculptor.

Biography

Straub was born in Wiesensteig, into a family of sculptors. His father Johann George Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob, Joseph, and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. J. B. Straub studied in Munich with the court sculptor Gabriel Luidl and then went to Vienna, where he worked from 1726 to 1734.

In 1734 Straub returned to Munich. In 1737 he was appointed by Elector Karl Albrecht from Bavaria as the court sculptor. In the same year Straub married a daughter of the court engraver, Franz Xaver Späth.

Straub worked primarily in

Straub died in Munich, where his workshop was the most important of its day. The most famous artist to study there was Ignaz Günther.

Major works

Austria

• Laxenburg—Schwarzspanierkirche Wien (pulpit) (1730)

Bavaria

• Altomünster—Brigittine Monastery Church (altars in the lay nave, figures of apostles, upper high altar, altars in the choir) (1765–1769)
• St. Elisabeth von Thüringen and St. Nicholas
  ) (1750)
• Bichl—Parish Church of St. George (high altar) (1752)
• Dießen am Ammersee—Church of St. Maria (side altars and pulpit) (1739–1741)
• Ettal—Benedictine Monastery Church (pulpit and side altars) (1757–1765)
• Fürstenzell—Cistercian Monastery Church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin (altar and tabernacle) (1741)
• St. Anna im Lehel
  (high altar tabernacle and pulpit) (1738–1739)
• Dreifaltigkeitskirche
  (tabernacle relief) (1760)
• Parish Church of St. Michael
  (high altar and side altars) (1743)
• Munich—St. George in Bogenhausen (high altar) (1770–1773)
• Oberaudorf—Kloster Reisach (side altars) (1748–1757)
• Polling
  —Kloster Polling (high altar renovation) (1763)
• Schäftlarn—Premonstratensian Monastery (pulpits and altars) (1755–1764)
• Steingaden—Premonstratensian Monastery Church of St. John the Baptist (figures of founders on the pillars of the high altar) (1740)

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More information

• Johann Baptist Straub in the German National Library catalogue