Matthias Zink

Matthias Zink , also: Zinckh , (* February 12 or 13, 1665 in Donaumünster near Donauwörth ; † November 2, 1738 in Eichstätt ), was a painter of the Baroque period, primarily in the Eichstätt monastery .

Life

Matthias Zink was born as the son of the farmer Andreas Zink and his wife Maria. Probably on his journey as a painter's journeyman, he came to the prince-bishop's residence city of Eichstätt, where he apparently took his master's examination. On January 17, 1691, he married Anna Maria, daughter of the Eichstatt citizen and Wagner Georg Hofmann. Zinc cannot be verified as a citizen of Eichstatt, but only as a "resident"; he probably lived with his father-in-law and was often away because of his work. The marriage resulted in two children: on May 16, 1694 Johann Michael , who also became a painter, from 1716 in Neresheimand the surrounding area, married in 1753 and died in Neresheim in 1765, and Maria Viktoria († 1738) in 1697. Two years after the death of Matthias Zink, his wife died on February 19, 1740 in Eichstätt.

Works

Matthias Zink worked primarily in the Eichstätt Monastery as a painter of altarpieces, antependia and ceiling frescoes , and occasionally also as a barrel painter. He is one of the notable, but not one of the outstanding baroque artists; art historians rate his frescoes in Plankstetten as “medium-sized works” (Hofmann / Mader, p. 133). About 40 works from his hand are known or are attributed to him:

• Altar sheet and version of the choir altar of the parish church in Kösingen near Neresheim (1688/89; removed in 1720)
• Painting of the Last Supper in the former Domkapiteltrinkstube Eichstätt (end of the 17th century)
• Former Catholic St. Aegidien Church (today Evangelical Lutheran Apostle Church) in Konstein near Wellheim , ceiling painting of Maria Immaculata and four medallions as oil paintings; the twelve apostles on the gallery parapet (around 1700; ceiling painting no longer existed since 1961/62)
• Version of the side altars of the Heilig-Geist-Spitalkirche in Eichstätt (around 1703; together with Lorenz Koch ; with him also gilding of the high altar)
• Participation in the ceiling paintings of the parish and monastery church Sankt Walburg in Eichstätt (1706; allocation questionable)
• Painting (altar leaves?) In Aurach near Ornbau (1702/03)
• Ceiling painting in the church of Pfalzpaint (1707; assignment)
• Ceiling frescoes of the pilgrimage church Altendorf in the Gailachtal, near Mörnsheim , in the central image of the Assumption of Mary (around 1710; assigned)
• Altar leaves of the three altars of the Catholic parish church Kaldorf near Titting (1709/10)
• Altarpieces of the two side altars of the parish church of Wemding (1713)
• High altar picture "Baptism of Christ" and side altar pictures of the church in Biesenhard (around 1715; older assignment by Felix Mader ; more recent assignment to Lorenz Koch)
• Frescoes of the oratory of the citizens' congregation "Maria vom Siege" (profaned by the secularization) south of the Ingolstadt Minster (around 1717)
• Altar leaves in the parish church of St. Johannes Baptista in Neumarkt (early 18th century; today on the west wall of the church)
• Several frescoes on the ceiling of the festival or theater hall of Neresheim Abbey (1719/20; probably together with son Johann Michael)
• All five ceiling paintings in the Evangelical Castle Church of the Princes of Oettingen-Oettingen in Harburg (1720; restored 1952)
• High altar painting in the church of Petersbuch near Titting (1720)
• Altar sheet of the altar of the Borgias Chapel above the sacristy of the Eichstatt Guardian Angel Church (1720/30)
• Three ceiling paintings on the life of Mary in the parish church of Hitzhofen (1722; assignment)
• Ceiling painting in the Heilig-Geist hospital and parish church in Neuburg an der Donau (1723/26)
• Ceiling painting on the life of St. Jakobus in the Catholic parish church of Greding (1725/28; removed or painted over in 1875)
• Painting above the top of the arcades and on the ceiling of the Plankstetten Abbey Church (1727; incorrectly attributed to Michael Zink)
• Apostle crosses in the church of Pfalzpaint (1728)
• Mount of Olives painting in the sign of the church of Landershofen near Eichstätt (1728)
• Two altar leaves of the high altar, elevator leaves and frame of the two side altars in the church of Kraftsbuch (1728)
• Altar antependium for the parish church Eitensheim (1730)
• Reversible altar antependium for the parish church of Mörnsheim (1731)
• Ceiling painting in the choir in the cath. Parish church in Hilpoltstein , (1732; heavily restored)
• Altar leaves on the side altars in the Parish Church of Emsing (1735; assigned)

literature

• Felix Mader (editor): The art monuments of Middle Franconia. I City of Eichstätt . Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1924, reprint 1981, esp. Pp. 341–343, footnote 1
• 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, pp. 121, 133 (footnote 1), 165
• Paulus Weissenberger: The painter family Matthias and Johann Michael Zink. Your life story and your life's work . In: Ellwanger Jahrbuch 1967-1968, pp. 37-71, especially pp. 37-50
• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bavaria I: Franconia. Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1999
• Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Bayern IV: Munich and Upper Bavaria . Munich, Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 2006

Web links

• To the Apostle Church Konstein ( Memento from October 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Kaldorf Church in words and pictures