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

Kilian family {{Short description, German engraver dynasty Kilian is 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 h ...

of engravers.

Biography

He was born in

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as the son of

Wolfgang Kilian Wolfgang Kilian (10 May 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 mothe ...

and besides being a pupil of his father, he trained with the engravers

Matthäus Merian the Younger Matthäus Merian (25 March 1621 – 15 February 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 h ...

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, and

François de Poilly François Poilly, or François de Poilly, (1623Born in 1622 or 1623 according to the sources. –1693) was a French engraver. Biography He was born in Abbeville, the son of a goldsmith who gave him his first drawing lessons. He was apprenticed ...

in Paris.Bartholomäus Kilian
in the

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He was the younger brother of

Philipp Kilian Philipp Kilian (1628 – 1693) was a German Baroque engraver. Biography According to Houbraken, he engraved the portrait of Johann Heinrich Roos, which Roos' teacher Barent Graat sent him when he was writing his ''Schouburgh''.

. He died in Augsburg.

References

Sources

Bartholomäus Kilian
on

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kilian, Bartholomaus 1630 births 1696 deaths Kilian family 17th-century German engravers People from Augsburg