The Sculpteur Johann Baptist Straub, engraving by Franz Xaver Jungwirth, 1779View into the choir, showing altars and figures by Straub, Andechs Abbey.
Johann Baptist Straub (1 June 1704 (baptism) – 15 July 1784) was a German Rococosculptor.
Biography
Straub was born in Wiesensteig, into a family of sculptors. His father Johann George Straub and his brothers Philipp Jakob, Joseph, and Johann Georg Straub were also sculptors, as was his nephew Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. J. B. Straub studied in Munich with the court sculptor Gabriel Luidl and then went to Vienna, where he worked from 1726 to 1734.
In 1734 Straub returned to Munich. In 1737 he was appointed by ElectorKarl Albrecht from Bavaria as the court sculptor. In the same year Straub married a daughter of the court engraver, Franz Xaver Späth.