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{{more citations needed, date=October 2019 Kilian is the name of a dynasty of German engravers from Augsburg, Germany, that were active there for over a century. The patriarch was Bartholomaus Kilian, a goldsmith, who married Maria Pfeiffelmann and they had two sons Lukas and Wolfgang. Bartholomaus died and his wife remarried the engraver Dominicus Custos. Together with him she had three more sons, Raphael, David and Jacob Custos (or ''Custodis''). Wolfgang in turn had two sons who became engravers, Bartholomaus the younger and Philipp Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: "Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews. Surname * Adolf Philipp (1864â .... Philipp's son Wolfgang Philipp also became an engraver. After them, there were a few more generations, and Georg Christophe (1709-1781) formed the collection of the family works conserved in the li ...
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Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Schwaben with an impressive Altstadt (historical city centre). Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area. After Neuss, Trier, Cologne and Xanten, Augsburg is one of Germany's oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augsburg#Early history, Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According to Behringer, in the sixteen ...
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Lucas Kilian
Lucas Kilian (1579 – 1637) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg. Biography He was the son of Bartholomaus Kilian the elder and Maria Pfeiffelmann. After his father's death in 1588 his mother remarried Dominicus Custos and he and his brother Wolfgang became his pupils.Lucas Kilian
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Kilian's engraved portrait of Albrecht Dürer, based on a Dürer self-portrait from a copy of Dürer's ''

Wolfgang Kilian
Wolfgang Kilian (1581–1662) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg. Biography He was the son of Bartholomaus Kilian the elder and Maria Pfeiffelmann. After his father's death in 1583 his mother remarried Dominicus Custos and he and his brother Lucas became his pupils.Wolfgang Kilian
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From 1604–1608 he travelled in Italy and worked in Venice, Mantua, and Milan. On his return he married and continued in the family workshop. He was the father of the engravers Bartholomaus the younger and

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Dominicus Custos
Dominicus Custos (1560–1612) was a Flemish artist, printer and copperplate engraver, who worked in the service of Emperor Rudolph II in Prague. Dominicus was born in Antwerp, the son of Pieter Balten, and settled in Augsburg as the second husband of the widow of Bartholomäus Kilian (1548–1588), a goldsmith from Silesia and the father of Wolfgang and Lukas Kilian; they were trained by Dominicus in the art of engraving after their father's death. Dominicus was the father of David Custodis, also an Augsburg engraver. Custos and the humanist Marcus Henning collaborated in producing the work ''"Tirolensium principum comitum"'' which appeared in 1599 and depicted 28 Counts of Tyrol from Albert IV (1190–1253) to Rudolf II (1552–1612). Custos was responsible for the engravings while Henning took care of the text and eulogies. (see The Spanish Hall at Schloss Ambras) Between 1602 and 1604 he published the ''"Atrium heroicum"'' in four parts. This was a collection of 171 e ...
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Raphael Custos
Raphael Custos, or Custodis (1590–1664), was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in Augsburg. Biography He was born in Augsburg as the oldest biological son of Dominicus Custos and Maria Pfeiffelmann, who already had two sons by her first marriage, Lucas Kilian, Lucas and Wolfgang Kilian. His parents later had two more sons, David and Jacob Custos, and they all became pupils of their father Dominicus.Raphael Custos
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After his father's death in 1612, Raphael continued the family workshop. Though his stepbrothers began their own workshops in Augsburg, they remained in close collaboration, as Raphael did not travel himself, but stayed to run family affairs while his brothers made business trips.


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Philipp Kilian
Philipp Kilian (1628 in Augsburg – 1693 in Augsburg), was a German Baroque engraver. Biography According to Houbraken he engraved the portrait of Johann Heinrich Roos which Roos's teacher Barent Graat sent him when he was writing his ''Schouburgh''."Kiliaan" mentioned as engraver of Roos portrait
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by , courtesy of the
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Kilian Family
{{more citations needed, date=October 2019 Kilian is the name of a dynasty of German engravers from Augsburg, Germany, that were active there for over a century. The patriarch was Bartholomaus Kilian, a goldsmith, who married Maria Pfeiffelmann and they had two sons Lukas and Wolfgang. Bartholomaus died and his wife remarried the engraver Dominicus Custos. Together with him she had three more sons, Raphael, David and Jacob Custos (or ''Custodis''). Wolfgang in turn had two sons who became engravers, Bartholomaus the younger and Philipp Philipp is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: "Philipp" has also been a shortened version of Philippson, a German surname especially prevalent amongst German Jews and Dutch Jews. Surname * Adolf Philipp (1864â .... Philipp's son Wolfgang Philipp also became an engraver. After them, there were a few more generations, and Georg Christophe (1709-1781) formed the collection of the family works conserved in the li ...
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