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(2) Januarius Zick
(b München–Au, 6 Feb 1730; d Ehrenbreitstein, 14 Nov 1797). Son of (1) Johann Zick. He first trained with his father and was then apprenticed (1745–8) to the master mason Jacob Emele (1707–80) in Schussenried—hence his later description of himself as pictor et architectus. Januarius’s first dated painting is from 1750: St Benedict Awakens a Monk from Death (Koblenz, Mittelrhein-Mus.). He went on working under his father, with interruptions, until 1759, on commissions that included frescoes and panels at Würzburg and Bruchsal. His panel paintings include David Playing the Harp Before Saul (c. 1753; Bremen, Ksthalle) and closely imitate the ‘Rembrandt’ style of his father. In 1757, during a visit to Paris, he studied with the copper-engraver Jean-Georges Wille and met his French contemporaries. He then travelled via Basle to Rome, where he completed his studies with Anton Raphael Mengs. In 1758 Zick became a member of the Augsburg academy and won a prize for the painting Mercury in the Sculptor’s Workshop (untraced). In the same year he painted 34 panels for the ‘Watteau-Kabinett’ in Schloss Bruchsal (destr. 1945), using his Paris experience.
Part of the Zick (ii) family
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