Artworks Catalogue

Location

Germany, Bavaria, Ettal

Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage of Church St Mary (Benediktinerabtei-, Pfarr- und Wallfahrtskirche St. Maria)

Artwork

Left Side Altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal

Type

Side altar

Critical History

Left side altar of St Corbinian with the statues of the Sts Benno and Rupert with the Madonna of Altötting. The tabernacle has the relief "Christ in Emmaus" and two lateral angels. The altar is crowned with an angel with a bishop insignia.

Altarpiece "St Corbinian" by J. J. Zeiller, 1761.

The work is testified by Lippert and the bills have been preserved (Munich, archives of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, Pfarrsachen Ettal).1

On 23 July 1759 a second contract was signed in Ettal for the Korbiniansaltar (northern cross altar) and the pulpit "nach dem proiectierten und zu übergeben seyenten Modell und dernahlen gemachten Verzaichnus Riss". Straub was to do the sculptures "zierlichist und in solcher Macht und Vollkommenheit, wie den ersten verförthigen, her- und aufstellen, wie auch die versprochene Modell, sowohl vor sich selbst als auch unser Kistler zur rechten Zeit herrichten und einschicken". The work was to be completed in the autumn of the following year. For this work Straub received 850 florins. The last payment was made in November 1760.

Components

Carpentry

Completed: ca. 1759 – ca. 1760

Sculpture

Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)

Completed: ca. 1759 – ca. 1760

Polychromy

Completed: ca. 1759 – ca. 1760

Images

1. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Michael Forstner, 2017)
2. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Martin Mannewitz, 2018)
3. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Martin Mannewitz, 2018)
4. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Martin Mannewitz, 2018)
5. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Martin Mannewitz, 2018)
6. Left side altar of St Corbinian in the Benedictine Abbey, Parish and Pilgrimage Church of St Mary in Ettal (Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites, photo by Martin Mannewitz, 2018)