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(1) Lucas Kilian
(b Augsburg, 1579; d Augsburg, 1637). He was apprenticed to his stepfather Dominicus Custos, an engraver from Antwerp. His earliest independent print shows the influence of the Netherlands, which was to be lasting: it is a large view of the Augustus Fountain in Augsburg (1599; Hollstein, no. 101) after a drawing by Frans Aspruck, exhibiting the type of display work brought by Italian-trained Dutch artists to Augsburg. In 1601 Kilian himself travelled to Italy. He went from town to town, mainly making reproductive engravings. In Venice (1602–3) he copied works by Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto and Palma Vecchio; some of these prints are the only records of now untraced paintings. From this time he developed a ‘painterly manner’ (Wengenmayr), achieving fine gradations of light and shade with richly varied use of the burin.
Part of the Kilian family
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- Kilian, Lucas
- Augsburg, §3(ii): Centre of print production
- Greifen: (1) Philip
- collaboration
- groups and movements
- teachers
- works
- Frame, §VI, 3: Germany and Central Europe: Baroque
- Gundelach, Matthäus
- Heintz: (2) Joseph Heintz (i), §2: Architectural work
- Rottenhammer, Hans, I, §1: Work in Italy, to 1606
- Schwarz, Christoph
- Spranger, Bartholomäus, §2(iii): Work at the court of Rudolf II: Reproductive engravings
- Strapwork
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