Johann Baptist Straub

Johann Baptist Straub (* June 1, 1704 ( Baptism) in Wiesensteig; † July 15, 1784 in Munich) was a Rococo sculptor.

Straub came from a family of sculptors. His father, Johann Georg Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob, Joseph and Johann Georg were sculptors. He learned initially from 1718 to 1722 in the workshop of his father, before he worked for the court sculptor Gabriel Luidl another four years in the circles of Munich court. Under Joseph Effner he prepared the first decorative work for the Munich Residenz. He then went to Vienna, where he studied from 1726 to 1734 within Ignaz favor, Christoph Mader, Galli Bibienna, Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach and Raphael Donner and first major works executed, for example Madonna, pulpit, pews, Orgelbekrönung and more figures for the Black Spaniard church.

In 1734, he returned at the invitation of the royal sculptor Andreas Faistenberger to Munich. He was appointed by Elector Karl Albrecht of Bavaria to the court sculptor on 7 June in 1737. In the same year he married a daughter of Joseph Hofkupferstechers Franz Xaver Späth.

Straub paid primarily in Upper Bavaria from churches and monasteries. Most his characters are white taken with a few gilding. Important works of Straub's located in the residence in Munich and Nymphenburg Palace. Religious works are the altars of the churches of Andechs Monastery and Schaeftlarn and the Church of St. Michael in Berg am Laim ( Munich).

Straub's shop was in its time the most significant in Munich. His most important disciple was Ignaz Günther, but next to it is also Roman Anton Boos to call. His tomb is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich.

Works

Reisach Monastery, Skapulieraltar

High altar of St. George, Bogenhausen

Tabernacle, monastery church of St. Anna im Lehel