Januarius Zick

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Self-portrait, 1757 ( Museum for Franconia , Würzburg)
Church of the Benedictine monastery in Wiblingen , 1778–1783

Johann Rasso Januarius Zick (born February 6, 1730 in Munich , † November 14, 1797 in Ehrenbreitstein ) was a German painter and architect at the time when the late Baroque was replaced by early classicism .

Life

Januarius Zick learned his craft as a fresco painter from his father Johannes Zick . When he was fourteen, his eleven-year-old brother fell from the scaffolding while doing unskilled labor at Weingarten Abbey and died. 1745–1748 Januarius completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer with Jakob Emele in Schussenried . He then worked together with his father, first in the Würzburg residence and until the mid-1750s on the frescoes in the residence in Bruchsal .

In 1756 Zick went to Paris for further training , where he established relationships with the art world in Rome, Basel and Augsburg. In 1757 the picture Jean-Jacques Rousseau finds the answer to the award task of the Academy of Dijon ( Museum zu Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen).

After the frescoing of Engers Castle near Neuwied in 1760, Zick was appointed court painter to the Electorate of Trier . He settled in Ehrenbreitstein, where he married the landlord's daughter Anna Maria Gruber (1745-1811). From 1774 he designed inlaid pictures for the cabinet maker David Roentgen .

From the late 1770s onwards, the artist carried out important fresco commissions and altarpieces in Upper Swabian monastery and parish churches. In the mid-1780s he moved to the Kurtrier and Kurmainzer area.

One of his fourteen children was the portrait and landscape painter Konrad Zick .

Works (selection)

Remy family, 1776 ( Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg )
Last Supper and Assumption of Mary , 1784 ( St. Verena, Rot an der Rot )

gallery

Church art

Secular art

Varia

Memorial plaque in Lachen (Swabia)

The modern plaque opposite claims that Januarius Zick was born in Lachen (Swabia) in 1727 like his father Johannes instead of 1730 in Munich . This is probably due to a mistake with an older brother, who was also baptized with the name Januarius but had already died as an infant.

literature

  • JB Schmid:  Zick, Januarius . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, p. 150 f.
  • Kurt Eitelbach: The Zick family of painters. Works from Koblenz private collection . Middle Rhine Museum, Koblenz 1976
  • Harriet Brinkmöller-Gandlau:  ZICK, artist family. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 14, Bautz, Herzberg 1998, ISBN 3-88309-073-5 , Sp. 437-441.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  • Othmar Metzger: Januarius Zick. Dated and datable paintings . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-422-00733-4
  • Adelheid Simon, Franz X. Schlagberger: Januarius Zick (1730–1797). The last major bourgeois painter in Germany. Frescoes, drafts, panel paintings . Auxilium, Prüm approx. 1987, ISBN 3-924634-02-5
  • (Chronicle of) the parish of St. John the Baptist Schwerzen, 1992
  • Michael Roth, Josef Strasser (Red.): Januarius Zick and his work in Upper Swabia . Exhibition of the Ulm Museum. Klinkhardt and Biermann, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-7814-0343-2
  • Josef Straßer: Januarius Zick 1730–1797. Paintings, graphics, frescoes . Konrad, Weißenhorn 1994, ISBN 3-87437-318-5 (also dissertation from the University of Munich, 1989)
  • Andrea Wandschneider (Ed.): Januarius Zick. Paintings and drawings . Exhibition of the municipal gallery in the riding hall, Paderborn. H-und-S-Verlag, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-929507-11-0
  • Jens Fachbach: Januarius Zick (1730–1797) "whose skill and fame is already widespread in Germany through his excellent Mahlereyen frescoes made in several churches in Swabia and various palaces" , in: Matthias von der Bank (ed.): Das Inheritance of the fathers. With the Zick family of painters through two centuries (= exhibition catalog Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz), Petersberg 2018, pp. 41–46.

Web links

Commons : Januarius Zick  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Kloster Elchingen  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jens Fachbach, Januarius Zick (see literature), p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Zick, Januarius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zick, Johann Rasso Januarius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and baroque architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1730
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1797
Place of death Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein