Jacob Zanusi

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Jacob Zanusi (also Jakob , Jacopo , Giacomo ; also Zanussi , Zanussy , Zanus ; * 1679 in Buchenstein / Fodom ; † December 24, 1742 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian baroque painter .

Life

Jacob Zanusi was born as the son of the carpenter Johann Baptist Zanus in the hamlet of Col in Ornela in Buchenstein, Ladin . He received his first artistic training in 1696 from the Brixen court painter Nikolaus Weis. Nothing certain is known about his further training, possibly he learned from Giuseppe Alberti in Cavalese and on the occasion of a study visit to Venice from Johann Carl Loth .

In 1705 he appeared in Salzburg as a fully trained painter. Since this was the only way to stay and work for a foreign painter, he became a journeyman with the painter Johann Martin Schaumberger. On September 7, 1705 he married his eldest daughter Ursula and became court painter to the new Bishop of Seckau , Franz Anton Adolph von Wagensperg . He was an open-minded and art-loving patron who gave him access to the court and aristocratic circles. Zanusi lived with his family in Styria until 1708/09 and worked as court painter and steward at Seggau Castle , the seat of the Seckau bishops.

From the spring of 1709 he was resident in Salzburg again and gained access to circles of the court, particularly through Wagensperg's influence. In 1714 he was granted court protection by Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach , which enabled him to work in competition with the guild painters with the permission of the sovereign and frequently earned him orders from the court.

Zanusi's first wife Ursula died on January 19, 1724 giving birth to their 13th child. In October of the same year he married Maria Ursula Theresia Kastner from Innsbruck, with whom he had six other children.

The 1730s were the high point of Zanusi's artistic work, he received large commissions and several times he was given the task of designing all the altars in a church. He was promoted by the new Archbishop Leopold Anton von Firmian and was friends with his nephew and chief steward , Franz Laktanz von Firmian . Another friendship connected him with the painter Paul Troger , who was called to Salzburg in 1727 and whose influence is evident in his works.

Zanusi suffered from illnesses again and again, for example in the winter of 1729/30 from a severe eye ailment, which almost made him blind, and in 1742 from a stomach ailment. On December 24th, 1742, at the age of 63, he died of a stroke and was buried in the Sebastian Cemetery in Salzburg .

To Zanusis works include portraits , mezzotints and especially altarpieces , which he created for numerous churches in the Archdiocese of Salzburg and neighboring areas. His work shows the influence of the Venetians , from Luca Giordano , Francesco Solimena , Johann Michael Rottmayr and from 1727, especially in the coloring, from Paul Troger. Zanusi played an important role in the development of Salzburg Baroque painting up to the end of the 18th century, his influence can be seen in the works of Benedikt Werkstätter , Peter Paul Perwanger , Pietro Antonio Lorenzoni , Matthias Siller , Joseph Ramsperger and Franz Xaver König .

Works

High altar picture Glory of St. Virgil , Parish Church Rattenberg (1728)
Melchizedek presents Abraham with bread and wine , Diocesan Museum Trento (1729)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jakob Zanusi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Salzburg-St. Andrä: Death Book, Vol. I, p. 514, incorrectly in older sources 1755
  2. ^ Salzburg cathedral parish, marriage book V, p. 340 | ( online )
  3. ↑ Salzburg-St.Andrä, Trauungsbuch I, p. 217 | ( online )
  4. ^ Edmund Blechinger: The court painter Jacob Zanusi 1679-1742, in: MGSLK, vol. 97, p. 115.
  5. ↑ Reinhard Weidl: The churches of Rattenberg. Christian Art Centers in Austria, No. 564, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2014 ( online )
  6. ^ Roland Peter Kerschbaum: Stiftspfarrkirche St. Michael in Mattsee. Christian Art Places in Austria, No. 520, Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 2010 ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Zanusi, Jacob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zanusi, Jakob; Zanusi, Jacopo; Zanussi, Jakob; Zanussi, Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian baroque painter
DATE OF BIRTH 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Buchenstein / Fodom
DATE OF DEATH December 24, 1742
Place of death Salzburg