Halbig studied under Konrad Eberhard in Munich, provided work for Bavarian churches and was responsible for the restoration of the Marienkapelle (Lady Chapel) in Würzburg.

He probably equipped classical side altars to the Bartholomäuskirche (St Bartholomew's Church ) in Oberspiesheim, a district of the Kolitzheim municipality in Lower Franconia.

The altar was originally intended for Vienna's Votive Church (Votivkirche).

Heinrich von Ferstel, the builder of the Votivkirche, rejected the altar as it would have interrupted the view of the choir ambulatory; the altar was consequently placed in Vienna's Augustinian Church in 1873.

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