Johann Michael Zink
Johann Michael Zink (born May 16, 1694 in Eichstätt , † April 26, 1765 in Neresheim ) was a painter of the Baroque period and a musician primarily in Neresheim and the surrounding area.
Life
Johann Michael Zink was born as the son of the painter Matthias Zink (* 1665, † 1738) and his wife Anna Maria geb. Hofmann († 1740) born. He had a sister Maria Viktoria (* 1697, † 1738). Presumably he was trained in painting by his father. Since he was also active as a musician, he must have already enjoyed an apprenticeship in Eichstätt about which nothing is known. His years of traveling took him to his father's places of work in Nördlinger Ries and the Benedictine Abbey of Neresheim . In 1716 he was employed in the abbey as a valet of the abbot Amandus Fischer . In the following two and a half years of service he undertook various special trips for the abbey. He also sometimes painted, for example a sundial in the new building yard of the abbey in 1717. In 1719 he presumably supported his father with the painting of the monastery hall. After a visit by the Augsburg painter Johann Georg Bergmüller to the abbey, Johann Michael Zink became a Bergmüller student in Augsburg in autumn 1719 , where he stayed for a year. He is listed several times as a guest in the Abbey of Neresheim until 1722 and probably carried out various painting jobs during these stays. In 1721 he painted the parish church of Kösingen belonging to the abbey . On October 17th of the same year he married the daughter of the Neresheim monastery cook, Emerentiana Hoser (* 1688) in the Neresheim parish church. The couple stayed in Neresheim throughout their lives. When his son Franz Sales (* 1726; † 1787 as a violin player at the court of Eichstätt) married in 1753, Johann Michael Zink was explicitly referred to as "pictor et musicus Eystettensis" (painter and musician from Eichstätt); in the death records of the parish of Neresheim, however, he is only mentioned as a painter. The marriage resulted in four more children: Maria Anna (* 1722; † 1723), the educator and musician Fortunatus Anton (* 1724; † 1796), Luitgard Afra (* 1728; † 1762) and Leopold (* and † 1729) .
Works
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He worked as a painter in Neresheim, on the Härtsfeld , in the Jagstgrund , in the Wörnitztal and in the Ries , occasionally also in more distant places. The following works are known:
- Neresheim Abbey, sundial at the building yard barracks (1717; not preserved; ceiling paintings in the Aurelius room, 1745/47; ceiling fresco and corner cartouche pictures of the monastery pharmacy 1746/51)
- Stadtpfarrkirche Neresheim, painting above the organ gallery (1717; further ceiling paintings 1728; wall fresco at the entrance 1742; smaller paintings on the gallery and in the choir 1745; two flag leaves 1763)
- Current cemetery church Neresheim, ceiling painting (1717/18)
- Custorei zu Ellwangen , three coats of arms (1719)
- Neresheim Abbey, frescoing of the festival / theater hall (1719; together with Matthias Zink)
- Parish church Kösingen, various frescoes and oil paintings (1721/22; Holy grave 1729; background of the crib 1731)
- Pilgrimage church Maria Buch near Neresheim, Antependium (1725; frescoes 1731 and two side altar paintings 1733 - destroyed by fire in 1796; drawing for the title copper of the pilgrimage anniversary inscription and creation of the Triumphal Gate in 1763; oil painting of the pilgrimage 1764)
- Portrait of St. Martyr Laurentius (also used as an engraving model) 1726
- Parish church Ohmenheim near Neresheim, ceiling frescoes (1727; renovation of the holy grave 1761)
- Parish church Gnotzheim near Gunzenhausen, high altar picture and three small frescoes (1728)
- Spitalkirche Oettingen , high altar picture (1728/29; destroyed 1945)
- Reimlingen parish church , ceiling frescoes (1730), high altar painting (after 1730)
- Parish church Utzmemmingen (Ries), ceiling frescoes (1732/33; high altar painting St. Martin 1751)
- Pilgrimage chapel St. Ulrich in Dehlingen , various painting works (1732; side altar sheets of the Ulrich chapel 1742, no longer at their destination; version of a statue of the Virgin 1747)
- Parsonage Neresheim, ceiling painting "Monks harvesting grapes" in the deanery hall (1733)
- Parish church Großkuchen , ceiling painting (1736)
- Benedictine Mission Church Schwarzach-St. Veit , side altar sheet “Death of St. Benedict "(1739; whereabouts unknown)
- Pilgrimage church Flochberg Mariä Visitation (“Our Lady from the Roggenacker”), side altar picture Death of St. Josef (1741/46)
- Parish Church of St. Sebastian Wolframs-Eschenbach , interior painting on the legend of the church patron (1745, according to Weissenberger, painter family, p. 65, "one of his most important creations")
- Parish church Dorfmerkingen , ceiling paintings, crosses of the Apostles and various versions (1748/49; side altar paintings 1750/51)
- Parish church Hoppingen , ceiling paintings and corner medallions (around 1750)
- Heuchlingen parish church , ceiling and wall frescoes (probably 1751/52, only partially preserved)
- Parish church Untermedlingen , various paintings (two have been preserved) (1753)
- Parish church Neuler near Ellwangen, ceiling frescoes (1756)
- Former simultaneous church (today's parish church) Deiningen , high altar picture and probably the two ceiling frescoes and other paintings (1756/58)
- Parish church of Unterschneidheim , ceiling frescoes
literature
- Friedrich Hermann Hofmann and Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Upper Palatinate & Regensburg. XII District Office Beilngries. I. District Court of Beilngries . Munich: R. Oldenbourg 1908, reprint 1982, p. 133 (footnote 1)
- Paulus Weissenberger and Gerhard Kerff: Neresheim. Text by Paulus Weissenberger. Recordings by Gerhard Kerff . Königstein im Taunus: Langewiesche 1957
- Paulus Weissenberger: The painter family Matthias and Johann Michael Zink. Your life story and your life's work . In: Ellwanger yearbook 1967-1968 . Pp. 37-71, especially pp. 51-71
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia . Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Zink, Johann Michael |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Zinckh, Johann Michael; Zink, Januarius Michael |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Baroque painter |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1694 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Eichstatt |
DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 1765 |
Place of death | Neresheim |