Bartholomäus Kilian (1630–1696), was a German engraver and member of the

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 an ...

of engravers.

Biography

He was born in

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 ...

as the son of Wolfgang Kilian and besides being a pupil of his father, he trained with the engravers

Matthäus Merian the Younger Matthäus Merian (1621 – 1687) was a Swiss engraver and portrait painter. Biography He was born in Basel as the eldest son of Matthäus Merian the Elder and his first wife Maria Magdalena née de Bry; like his father he became an engraver ...

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

, and François de Poilly in Paris.Bartholomäus Kilian
in the

RKD The Netherlands Institute for Art History or RKD (Dutch: RKD-Nederlands Instituut voor Kunstgeschiedenis), previously Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentatie (RKD), is located in The Hague and is home to the largest art history center i ...

He was the younger brother of

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 ''Sch ...

. He died in Augsburg.

References

Sources

Bartholomäus Kilian
on Artnet

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilian, Bartholomaus 1630 births 1696 deaths Kilian family German engravers People from Augsburg