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(2) Wolfgang Kilian
(b Augsburg, 1581; d Augsburg, 1662). Brother of (1) Lucas Kilian. Like him he was apprenticed to his stepfather, Dominicus Custos. In 1602 he depicted the Hercules Fountain, Augsburg (Hollstein, no. 88), completed that year by Adriaen de Vries. He also engraved contemporary paintings in this early period, for example Christ Washing the Feet of the Disciples (1603; Hollstein, no. 8) after Christoph Schwarz (c. 1545–92). After Lucas’s return from Italy in 1604, Wolfgang left for his own travels in Mantua, Milan, Rome and Venice. In Venice he did reproductive engravings of Tintoretto’s Assumption of the Virgin (1608; Hollstein, no. 17), Veronese’s Baptism of Christ (1610; Hollstein, no. 4) and Jacopo Bassano’s Good Samaritan (Hollstein, no. 7). His return to Augsburg in 1611 opened a long and prolific creative period for Wolfgang, who was described by Georg Christoph Kilian, his biographer, as having ‘a temperament disposed to happiness’. His oeuvre includes portraits, book illustrations, genealogies, cartography and Thesenblätter or ‘thesis broadsheets’.
Part of the Kilian family
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