ELECTA UT SOL (Cartouche on the frontside of both consoles)
Critical History
In Lipperts list the 2 angels have the number 72.1 Volk dates them in 1740–1745,2 Steiner in 1750.3
Construction / Execution
The angels are carved in wood and completely covered with metal leafs in silver and gold. Each one is standing on a console with a cartouche and a inscription: "Electa ut sol". Volk says that one had before the inscription "Pulchra ut luna."
Components
Sculpture
Two angels in the church of St Ursula, Landshut
Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
Completed: 1740 – 1745
Polychromy
Two angels in the church of St Ursula, Landshut
Completed: 1740 – 1745
Comment
The angels are not assigned to an obvious purpose like an tabernacle. On the backside of the sculptures are vertical handmade metal inserts for a stabilization of the sculpture. This fact underlines the idea of Steiner who says that the angels can be carried during a procession.3
Images
View to the highaltar of the St Ursula-Church, Landshut photo Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 08.2017
The right angel at the highaltar of St Ursulachurch, Landshut photo Bavarian Office of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 08.2017
The left angel at the highaltar of St Ursulachurch, Landshut photo Bavarian Office of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 08.2017
The left angel in the St Ursulachurch, Landshut detail of the metal element on the backside photo Bavarian Office of Monuments and Sites Rupert Karbacher 07.2018
Catalogue entry prepared by Rupert Karbacher
Recommended citation: Rupert Karbacher, Two angels in the St Ursula-Church, Landshut, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 03/02/2026) URL
Sources and Bibliography
Johann Caspar Lippert, Kurzgefaßte Nachricht von dem churbaierischen ersten Hofbildhauer Herrn Johannes Straub, in: Augsburgisches monatliches Kunstblatt. Kunstzeitung der kaiserlichen Akademie zu Augsburg, 1772, Nr. 54f
Peter Steiner, Johann Baptist Straub (Münchner kunsthistorische Abhandlungen, VI), München und Zürich, Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 1974
Peter Volk, Johann Baptist Straub 1704–1784, München, Hirmer Verlag, 1984
