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(1) Johann Zick
(b Lachen, 10 Jan 1702; d Würzburg, 4 March 1762). After completing his apprenticeship with Jakob Karl Stauder, probably between 1721 and 1724, he painted the Mariahilfkirche in Munich (destr. 1840). Andreas Felix Oefele, Zick’s biographer, claims this was followed by a three-year visit to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta in Venice, but this must be based on legend. In 1728 Zick settled in Munich, where he was appointed court painter in 1732. Despite this he was long unable to assert himself against the dominant Asam brothers and received few fresco commissions, apart from the Klosterkirche in Raitenhaslach (1738–9). The frescoes for the Klosterkirche at Schussenried (1745) and the Pfarrkirche of Biberach (1746–8) helped to establish Zick. In 1750 he painted the ceiling of the garden room at the Residenz in Würzburg. His pastoral mythological groups here, relating to Balthasar Neumann’s architecture, display ‘the perpetual continuation of welfare growing out of the gifts of nature’ (Strieder).
Part of the Zick (ii) family
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