Location
Germany, Bavaria, Munich
Parish Church of St Michael (Pfarrkirche St. Michael )
Catholic Parish Administration of St Michael
Artwork
Side Altar of St Mary with the Sculptures of St Anna and St Joachim in the Jesuit Church of St Michael, Munich
Type
Side altar
Inscriptions
- COMAE CAPITIS EIVS SICVT ELATAE PALMARUM cartouche on top of the altar
- INDVLGENTIARVM ALTARE IV cartouche above painting
- ECCE VIRGO CONCIPIET Console of S. Joachim
- BENEDICTA ES TUA FILIA console under S. Anna
Critical History
Lippert lists under the numbers 33-38 several busts and reliefs for the equipment of St Michael. 1 Volk says that the 2 sculptures belong to the best which J. B. Straub executed in his later years (1770).2 The architecture dates in 1697 for the design Frater Johannes Hörmann SJ. was responsible. 3
The sculpture of St Joachim is standing on the right side of the painting "annunciation to St Maria" by Peter Candid (1574) the sculpture of St Anna on the left. Joachim holds in his right hand the bar of a shepherds shovel. His left hand is opened in a gesture of admiration/wondering. His head is turned upwards. Anna is keeping a book in her left hand and holds her right hand like explaining something to someone. She is looking downwards. Both sculptures are presented with oriental cloth. Their heads are covered with a shawl.
The architecture of the altar is older than the sculptures.
Construction / Execution
The sculptures were made in wood. They bear a white monochrome painting layer with gilded details. The altar was made in stone or stucco-marble.
Components
- Masonry
- The sidealtar of St Maria with the sculptures of St Anna and St Joachim in the parishchurch St Michael in Munich
- Completed: 1770
- Patron(s): Anton Cramer, provost
- Technique(s): stonework, stucco marble
- Material(s): stone
- Painting
- The sidealtar of S. Maria with the sculptures of S. Anna and S. Joachim in the Jesuitchurch S. Michael in Munich
- Author: Peter Candid (Bruges ca. 1548 – Munich 1628)
- Completed: 1587
- Technique(s): panel painting
- Sculpture
- The sidealtar of St Maria with the sculptures of St Anna and St Joachim in the Jesuitchurch St Michael, Munich
- Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
- Completed: 1770
- Patron(s): Anton Cramer, provost
- Technique(s): wood carving
- Material(s): wood
- Polychromy
- The sidealtar of St Maria with the sculptures of St Anna and St Joachim in the Jesuitchurch St Michael, Munich
- Completed: 1770
- Patron(s): Anton Cramer, provost
Images
- The sidealtar of St Maria in St Michael, Munich photo Bavarian State Office of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 05.2018
- The sculpture of St Joachim at the sidealtar of St Maria in St Michael, Munich photo Bavarian State Office of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 05-2018
- The sculpture of St Anna at the sidealtar of St Maria in the Jesuitchurch St Michael, Munich photo Bavarian State Office of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 05-2018
Catalogue entry prepared by Rupert Karbacher
Recommended citation: Rupert Karbacher, Side Altar of St Mary with the Sculptures of St Anna and St Joachim in the Jesuit Church of St Michael, Munich, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 18/11/2025) URL
