Alexander Zick

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Alexander Zick
Illustration to Hansel and Gretel

Alexander Zick (born December 20, 1845 in Koblenz , † November 10, 1907 in Berlin ) was a German history, portrait and genre painter and illustrator .

Life

Alexander Zick, son of the painter Gustav Zick , grandson of the painter Konrad Zick and great-grandson of the painter Januarius Zick , first studied sculpture with August Wittig at the Royal Prussian Art Academy in Düsseldorf after 1862 . He later switched to painting and became a student of Eduard Bendemann . Zick then went to Koblenz before moving to Paris in 1864 at the latest. There he was trained in Alexandre Cabanel's studio . From around 1870 Zick was based in Düsseldorf.

Through acquaintance with Ludwig Knaus , Zick went to Berlin in 1880. Although still active as a genre and history painter, he was soon mainly known as an illustrator. He made drawings for fairy tales, for family and youth magazines such as Die Gartenlaube , but also for general literature such as an edition of Goethe's Faust .

Works (selection)

  • with his father Gustav Zick: picture painted in oil on hardened plaster '' The Storm on the Sea '' in the choir room of St. Nikolaus in Koblenz-Arenberg .
Ten Mark 1906, front side, designed by Alexander Zick.

Numismatic work

Five-mark Reichskassenschein 1904, designed by Alexander Zick
Ten Mark 1906, reverse side, designed by Alexander Zick

Towards the end of his life, Alexander Zick was the designer of two German banknotes, the five-mark Reichskassenschein 1904 and the ten-mark Reichskassenschein 1906.

literature

  • Gustav Heinrich Schneideck: Alexander Zick. With a portrait, 13 illustrations and two art supplements based on originals by the master. In: Reclams Universum 24.1, 1908, pp. 608-614.
  • Zick, Alexander . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 36 : Wilhelmy-Zyzywi . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1947, p. 478 .
  • Kurt Eitelbach: The Zick family of painters. Works from Koblenz private collection . Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz 1976
  • Gitta Ho: Zick, Alexander , in: Bénédicte Savoy / France Nerlich (ed.): Paris apprenticeship years. A lexicon for training German painters in the French capital . Volume 2: 1844-1870 . De Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2015. ISBN 978-3-11-035006-7 .
  • The inheritance of the fathers. With the Zick family of painters through two centuries . Exhibition catalog. Koblenz, Middle Rhine Museum, June 9 to September 30, 2018. Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7319-0731-2 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Zick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ color illustration .
  2. ↑ What two old banknotes tell. Reich cash receipt for 5 marks, 1904. Jever Castle Museum, accessed on April 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ 1845-1907 Alexander Zick. germanicmythology.com, accessed April 28, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Zick, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1845
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1907
Place of death Berlin