Paul Christian Zink

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Paul Christian Zink, portrait by Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski

Paul Christian Zink (born April 16, 1687 in Dresden , † May 20, 1770 in Leipzig ) was a German painter and engraver. He was the younger brother of the enamel painter Christian Friedrich Zincke .

life and work

Zink was the son of a Dresden goldsmith , to whom he was also an apprentice. With him he is said to have practiced engraving and etching at the same time . Then he attended the Dresden Art Academy , founded in 1705 , where he trained as a painter under Heinrich Christoph Fehling's direction. Since his brother Christian Friedrich had found a worthwhile job as an enamel painter in London , he decided to move to England as well. But he seems to have stayed only a short time in London and from there went to Vienna , where he became a student of the local academy .

From around 1721–1722 he opened a small formal art academy based on the Dresden and Viennese model in his apartment in Leipzig, which has been attended by around twenty young people since the beginning. Even Christian Friedrich Boetius was his pupil there. However, the influx decreased so much from year to year that Zink felt compelled to sell his art collections.

Through the relationship with his brother, however, he was able to open a trade in English steel goods such as files, coffee grinders, padlocks, saws, pen knives, scissors, kitchen knives, diggers, chisels, hammers and the like. His shop was located in Auerbach's court and was praised by contemporaries as something unique of its kind. First, the business seems to have earned him a modest prosperity, because the St. John's in 1753 he and his family donated the St. John's Church a full altar and pulpit clothing from intricately intertwined flowers and leaves threads with silver wire and colorful silk on white Gros de Tour (heavy silk ) executed.

In 1756, Zink suddenly went blind. The blindness put an end to his ability to work and he lived a long time as a beneficiary. He died at the age of 83, so he was very old for the time.

His portrait, painted by Christoph Friedrich Reinhold Lisiewski in 1755 and showing him tracing a bust, was transferred to the city library by the city council after his death . Today it is part of the collection in the Museum of Fine Arts .

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SURNAME Zink, Paul Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zincke, Paul Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter, draftsman and engraver
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1770
Place of death Leipzig