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Lucas Kilian (1579 – 1637) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers in
in the
"Printed Bodies and the Materiality of Early Modern Prints,"
''Art in Print'', vol. 1, no. 1 (May-June 2011). He died in Augsburg.
Lucas Kilian
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Lucas Kilian (1579 – 1637) was a German engraver and member of the Kilian family of engravers 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 ...
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Biography
He was the son of Bartholomaus Kilian the elder and Maria Pfeiffelmann. After his father's death in 1588 his mother remarriedDominicus 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 h ...
and he and his brother Wolfgang became his pupils.Lucas Kilianin 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 ...
Kilian's engraved portrait of Albrecht Dürer, based on a Dürer self-portrait from a copy of Dürer's ''Feast of the Rosary
''Feast of the Rosary'' (German: ''Rosenkranzfest'') is a 1506 oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, now in the National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. According to Czechoslovakian art historian Jaroslav Pešina, it is "probably the most superb pai ...
'' by Johann Rottenhammer, "became one of the best-known representations of Dürer to posterity." He is also known for his engravings after Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem. His anatomy broadsides, ''Catoptri Microcosmici'' ('Mirrors of the Microcosm'), produced after designs by the medical doctor Johannes Remmelin and published by Stephan Michelspacher, were much reprinted after their original publication in 1613, including a 1615 pamphlet, a 1619 book, reprints in German, Latin, Dutch and English, as well as a 1754 Italian plagiarism.Schmidt, Suzanne Karr"Printed Bodies and the Materiality of Early Modern Prints,"
''Art in Print'', vol. 1, no. 1 (May-June 2011). He died in Augsburg.
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilian, Lucas 1579 births 1637 deaths Kilian family