Sankt Johann Nepomuk / Asam Church
In Sankt Johann Nepomuk / Asam Church—better known as the Asamkirche—Munich had a Baroque “private church” created by the Asam brothers rather than for a public congregation. Egid Quirin Asam, a sculptor, and Cosmas Damian Asam, a painter, built it between 1733 and 1746, shaping it around their own religious and artistic program as independent contractors. The result was strikingly compact: the property measured just 22 by 8 meters, yet the two-story interior unified architecture, painting, and sculpture in a single space. The church was designed as a Beichtkirche for the youth, with seven confessionals set into the layout and allegorical scenes. Even the façade was constrained and clever—integrated into the houses along Sendlinger Straße and described as swinging slightly convex outward. …
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