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Johann Baptist Straub (1 June 1704 (baptism) – 15 July 1784) was a German
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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
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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
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n churches and monasteries, frequently alongside some of the greatest Baroque artists of the day: the architect Johann Michael Fischer, the painter Johann Baptist Zimmermann, the
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, the Tyrolian painter
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, and the
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ists
Franz Xaver Francis Xavier (born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta; Latin: ''Franciscus Xaverius''; Basque: ''Frantzisko Xabierkoa''; French: ''François Xavier''; Spanish: ''Francisco Javier''; Portuguese: ''Francisco Xavier''; 7 April 15063 Decembe ...
and Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, among others. Usually Straub's figures are carved in simple white, with very little gold trim. Important works by Straub are in the
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in Munich as well as in Schloss Nymphenburg. His best-known church works are the altars of the monastic churches of Andechs and
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as well as St. Michael's Church in
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, a borough of Munich. Straub died in
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, where his workshop was the most important of its day. The most famous artist to study there was Ignaz Günther.


Major works


Austria

*
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—Schwarzspanierkirche Wien (pulpit) (1730)


Bavaria

* AltomünsterBrigittine Monastery Church (altars in the lay nave, figures of apostles, upper high altar, altars in the choir) (1765–1769) * AndechsPilgrimage Church of the Annunciation (altars, figures of 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) * EttalBenedictine Monastery Church (pulpit and side altars) (1757–1765) * Fürstenzell—Cistercian Monastery Church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin (altar and tabernacle) (1741) *
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—Franciscan Monastery Church of
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(high altar tabernacle and pulpit) (1738–1739) *
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Dreifaltigkeitskirche (tabernacle relief) (1760) *
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Parish Church of St. Michael (high altar and side altars) (1743) *
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—St. George in Bogenhausen (high altar) (1770–1773) * Oberaudorf—Kloster Reisach (side altars) (1748–1757) * Polling—Kloster Polling (high altar renovation) (1763) *
Schäftlarn Schäftlarn is a municipality in the district of Munich in Bavaria in Germany. It consists of the villages Ebenhausen, Hohenschäftlarn, Kloster Schäftlarn, Neufahrn and Zell. The river Isar runs through it. A human settlement with the name "Sch� ...
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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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Straub, Johann Baptist 1704 births 1784 deaths People from Göppingen (district) German Baroque sculptors 18th-century German sculptors 18th-century German male artists German male sculptors Rococo sculptors Artists from Baden-Württemberg Catholic sculptors