Location
Germany, Bavaria, Andechs
Benedictine Abbey and Pilgrimage Church of Sts Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs (Benediktinerabtei- und Wallfahrtskirche St. Nikolaus, Elisabeth und Maria)
Artwork
Left Side Altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine Abbey- and Pilgrimage Church of Sts Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
Type
Side altar
Dimensions
Height: 636 cm, width: 256 cm
Inscriptions
- ALTARE QVOTIDIE PRIVILEGIATVM (Cartouche above altarpiece)
Critical History
1751 – 1755 Modernization of the church for the 300th anniversary of the Benedictine abbey Andechs.
Left side altar of St Benedikt with St Bernhard and Ildefons by Johann Bapt. Straub, before 1755. Altarpiece of St Benedict by Johann Andreas Wolff, 1703
Construction / Execution
The altar is made in red stucco-marble and the sculptures are carved in wood, the sculptures have monochrome white painting layer with partial gildings. Frame, vases and details are gilded
Components
- Carpentry
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
- Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
- Completed: ca. 1751 – ca. 1755
- Patron(s): owner, monastery
- Technique(s): sawing
- Sculpture
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
- Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
- Completed: ca. 1751 – ca. 1755
- Polychromy
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
- Completed: ca. 1751 – ca. 1755
Conservation-restoration
- 1878
Treatment Description
Renovation of the entire interior of the church and restoration of the equipment in 1878
- 1880
Treatment Description
The architecture of the side altars was also overpainted.The areas with original gilding were kept. "Johan Georg Huber"was the painter who performed the measurement. The white painting layer on the sculptures of the sidealtars was overpainted white and polished. The areas with original gilding were kept.
- 1998/99
Treatment Description
1998/99 preliminary examination of the equipment of the monastery church.
Images
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
- Left side altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
Catalogue entry prepared by Martin Mannewitz
Recommended citation: Martin Mannewitz, Left Side Altar St Benedikt in the Benedictine Abbey- and Pilgrimage Church of Sts Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 18/11/2025) URL
