Johann Rasso Januarius Zick (before 1730–1797)

• Was a German painter and architect.
• Januarius Zick was born in Munich.
• He began to learn from his father, Johannes Zick, to whom he was apprenticed in order to learn how to paint frescoes.
• From 1745 to 1748, Januarius Zick was apprenticed as a bricklayer to Jakob Emele in Schussenried.
• In 1756, Januarius Zick went to Paris for further education.
• After having furnished Schloss Engers near Neuwied with frescoes in 1760, he was appointed court painter to the Prince-Elector of Trier, the archbishop of Trier.
• He married in Ehrenbreitstein and settled there. 

• After 1774, he 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.

• He died in Ehrenbreitstein. 

• Next