Location
Germany, Bavaria, Andechs
Benedictine abbey and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs (Benediktinerabtei- und Wallfahrtskirche St. Nikolaus, Elisabeth und Maria in Andechs)
Benedictine abbey, Andechs
Artwork
The tabernacle with 2 sculptures at the high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
Type
High altar
Dimensions
Height: 560 cm, width: 444 cm
Critical History
1751 - 55 redesign of the church for the 300th anniversary of the abbey in 1755.1
According to Lippert J.B. Straub created a Madonna (not received) and the tabernacle for the high altar. The goldsmith J. M. Roth of Munich made the silver works (not received) on the tabernacle, probably according to Straub's designs. The late medieval madonna was placed in the new hoigh altar in 16.9.1755.2
Works of Straub are the two completely gildes and silver plated altar lateral figures of St Nicholas (left) and St Elisabeth (right).
Construction / Execution
The figures on the high altar are made of wood, silvered and partly gilded.
The sculptures of St Nicholas andSt Elisabeth are 184cm high, and 256 wide.
Components
- Carpentry
- Tabernacle und 2 sculptures at the high altar of the Benedictine abbey and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
- Completed: ca. 1755 – ca.
- Patron(s): owner, monastery
- Technique(s): sawing
- Material(s): wood
- Sculpture
- Tabernacle und 2 sculptures at the high altar of 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): wood carving
- Material(s): wood
- Polychromy
- The tabernacle with 2 sculptures at the high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs
- Completed: 1751 – ca. 1755
Conservation-restoration
- 1878
Treatment Description
Renovation of the entire interior of the church and restoration of the equipment in 1878
- 1998/99
Treatment Description
1998/99 preliminary examination of the equipment of the monastery church.3
- 2003/04
Treatment Description
Tabernacle: complete renewal of the silvering of the putti (Wiegerling)
Lateral high altar figures: retouching of the silver plating and gilding (Wiegerling)
Images
- high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
- high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
- high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, Photo: M. Mannewitz, 2018
- Tabernacle of the high altar of 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, The tabernacle with 2 sculptures at the high altar of the Benedictine abbey- and pilgrimage church of St Nicholas, Elisabeth and Mary in Andechs, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 25/01/2026) URL
