Location
Germany, Bavaria, Polling
Parish church St Holy Cross (Pfarrkirche Heilig Kreuz)
Kath. Pfarramt Hl. Kreuz Polling
Artwork
The added parts on top of the side altars in the Parish church of the Holy Cross, Polling
Type
Side altar
Critical History
Volk describes the added parts of the side altars dedicated to St Maria and St Augustinus: "Around the Holy Spirit a heart which is pierced by an arrow, gilded beams with clouds in silver and for each altar 3 heads of puttos with wings. Lippert does only list the tabernacle. 1
Construction / Execution
The added parts are made by wood and have a polychrome painting layer on a ground layer or rather a gilded silvered surface.
Components
- Sculpture
- Author: Johann Baptist Straub (Wiesensteig ca. 1704 – Munich 1784)
- Completed: 1763 – 1764
- Technique(s): wood carving
- Material(s): wood
- Polychromy
Comment
Looking at the photos of the sidealtars it seems that a lot more of their decoration dates in the middle of the 18th century and was executed by Straub and his workshop. The ornaments cartouches show rocailles which exist only after 1730.
Images
- The sidealtar dedicated St Augustinus in the parishchurch Holy-Cross, Polling photo Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 07.2017
- The sidealtar dedicated St Maria in the parishchurch Holy-Cross, Polling photo Bavarian State Department of Monuments and Sites Michael Forstner 07.2017
Catalogue entry prepared by Rupert Karbacher
Recommended citation: Rupert Karbacher, The added parts on top of the side altars in the Parish church of the Holy Cross, Polling, in: TrArS – Tracing the Art of the Straub Family, 2018, (accessed 03/02/2026) URL
