 Januarius 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.