Januarius Zick. Authentication, certificates of authenticity and expert appraisals.

Januarius Zick
(1730-1797)

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Self-Portrait 1755

Januarius Zick was an 18th century German painter and architect. Zick was born in Munich and began to learn his trade from his father, Johannes Zick, a renowned painter himself, to whom he was apprenticed in order to learn how to paint frescoes. In 1744, when Januarius Zick was fourteen years old, his brother, three years his junior, fell to his death from a scaffolding in Weingarten. From 1745 to 1748, Januarius Zick was apprenticed as a bricklayer to Jakob Emele in Schussenried. Having finished his apprenticeship, he worked, together with his father, at the residence of the Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and then, until the mid-1750s, at the residence of the Prince-Bishop of Speyer in Bruchsal.

The Remy Family 1776

In 1756, Januarius Zick went to Paris to further his education. There, Zick came into contact with artists and art connoiseurs from Rome, Basel and Augsburg, who broadened his horizon concerning his art and had a considerable influence on him. After having furnished Castle Engers near Neuwied with frescoes in 1760, Zick was appointed court painter to the Prince-Elector of Trier, the archbishop of Trier. Zick married in Ehrenbreitstein and settled there.

Two Shepherds Wooing a Shepherdess

Adoration of the Sheperds

After 1774, Zick also designed intarsia paintings for cabinet maker David Roentgen. From the late 1770s on, Januarius Zick was very active in Upper Swabia, furnishing a number of monastery churches and parish churches with frescoes and altarpieces. After the mid-1780s until his death, he was productive in the territories of the Prince-Elector of Trier and the Prince-Elector of Mainz. Zick died in Ehrenbreitstein.

Monastery Church in Elchingen

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