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Kilian.
German family of engravers. They were central figures in Augsburg’s role as a centre for engraving during the 17th and early 18th centuries. Bartholomäus Kilian I (1548–88), a goldsmith from Silesia, settled c. 1575 in Augsburg, where he became a master in 1578. His sons (1) Lucas Kilian and (2) Wolfgang Kilian were trained in engraving by Dominicus Custos (b after 1550; d 1612), who married Bartholomäus’s widow. Lucas was a masterly and innovative engraver, introducing Italian influences to German ornamentation; he and Wolfgang developed the new form of the Thesenblatt, or thesis broadsheet. Wolfgang had three sons: Johann Baptist Kilian (1623–97), a goldsmith, and (3) Philipp Kilian and (4) Bartholomäus Kilian II, both notable engravers of portraits and book illustrations. Philipp had two sons, Wolfgang Philipp Kilian (1654–1732) and Jeremias Kilian (1665–1730), both engravers. Wolfgang Philipp had five sons, three of whom, Johann Jakob Kilian (1678–1703), (5) Georg Kilian and Paul Kilian (1687–1718), were engravers. Georg, who also painted, had four sons, the first of whom, (6) Georg Christoph Kilian, served as annalist to the family art he also practised; his brothers Philipp Andreas Kilian (1714–59) and Christoph Gustav Kilian (b 1724) were also engravers. Philipp Andreas’s son Georg Martin Kilian (1739–60) was a further engraver. The following members have entries:
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