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(3) Philipp Kilian
(b Augsburg, 1628; d Augsburg, 1693). Son of (2) Wolfgang Kilian. After his apprenticeship, in 1648 he set off on the educational visit to Italy traditional in the family. He stayed in Florence, Venice and presumably Rome, reproducing celebrated paintings in these cities such as Veronese’s Adoration of the Magi (Hollstein, no. 2), Tintoretto’s Woman Taken in Adultery (Hollstein, no. 3), Carlo Dolci’s Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Hollstein, no. 5), Correggio’s Virgin and Child in Glory (Hollstein, no. 11) and the Baptism of St Anthony by St Ambrose (Hollstein, no. 28) by Giovanni Battista Pittoni. Unlike his forebears, Philipp was interested in French and Flemish painting as represented by the work of Philippe de Champaigne, engraving his Assumption of the Virgin (Hollstein, no. 12) and some of his portraits. He also reproduced the works of German artists abroad, for example Johann Carl Loth’s Holy Family (Hollstein, no. 13). Later, after his return to Germany, he reproduced works by Johann Georg Knappich and Thesenblätter by Karel Skréta.
Part of the Kilian family
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