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(6) Georg Christoph Kilian
(b Augsburg, 4 Jan 1709; d Augsburg, 15 June 1781). Son of (5) Georg Kilian. Kilian followed an apprenticeship with his father with the traditional years of travel, visiting Nuremberg and Hungary and working for some time in Vienna, where he studied the Old Masters in the art galleries. He returned to Augsburg and established himself there, enjoying a high reputation in the literary and artistic circles of his time. He embodied the prevailing humanist ideal in the truest sense, working both as a talented artist and as an historian, collector and biographer of other artists. Apart from his renowned natural history collection, Kilian had a well-chosen art library and above all a comprehensive graphic art collection, comprising engravings, woodcarvings and drawings. He collected in particular the works of his own family. In addition he himself engraved portraits of his ancestors and family for the collection: bound in six volumes, it now forms an important part of the Augsburg Staats- & Stadtbibliothek. The remaining plates from the collection were auctioned off after Kilian’s death.
Part of the Kilian family
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