Januarius Zick
Johann Rasso Januarius Zick ( born February 6, 1730 in Munich, † November 14, 1797 in Ehrenbreitstein today to Koblenz ) was a German painter and architect. He is regarded as the main champion of German painting of the late Baroque.
Life
Januarius Zick learned his craft as a fresco painter apprentice at his father Johannes Zick. At the age of eleven years Zick's brother in 1744 crashed on unskilled labor in the vineyard from the scaffold and was killed; Januarius was just fourteen years old. From 1745 to 1748 he completed an apprenticeship with Jacob Maurer Emele shot in Ried. Afterwards he worked with his father first in the Würzburg Residence and until the mid- 1750s on the frescoes for the residence in Bruchsal.
1756 Januarius went for further training to Paris, where he established relations with the art world to Rome, Basel and Augsburg.
After the frescos of Schloss Engers near Neuwied in 1760, he was appointed court painter kurtrierischen. He married in Ehrenbreitstein and settled there permanently down. From 1774 he also designed inlaid images for the cabinetmaker David Roentgen.
From the late 1770s, the artist explained significant fresco orders and altarpieces in the Upper Swabian monasteries and parish churches, from the mid- 1780s he moved to the Kurtrierer and Kurmainzer area.