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Two Large Folio-size Proofs of Fabulous Woodcuts, one by Helene Klaunzer, student of Franz Cizek (the one on left, "Beer Garden"), and possibly both done by Klaunzer. Rectangular (oblong) woodblock prints, 13 x 19 inches, on cream-colored coated paper proof paper, with image size: 8 x 15 inches. Klauzner was a student of the renowned Viennese Secessionist artist, designer and reformer, Prof. Franz Cizek (1865-1946). The art is distinctively Secessionist. There is a third sheet (blank) with the following notation written in pencil: "Students Work-/ Prof Cizek's Art School-/ Vienna, Austria." We have corroborated that the first proof ("Scene in a Beer Garden") was done ca. 1910, by Helene Klaunzner, as held by the Victoria & Albert Museum, and pictured on their website. The following appears on a page which pictures the image: "Helene (Hella) Klaunzner was a student in Professor Franz Cizek's Jugendkunstklasse. Professor Cizek (1848-1922) was initially a genre and portrait painter but became involved with the reform of art education in the early 20th Century. He saw the artistic individuality of a child as characterized by instinctual responses and based his teaching theory around this. In 1897 he founded a school called the Jugendkunstklasse ('Children's art class') for children from the age of three upwards, and in 1904 it was incorporated into the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts (Kunstgewerbeschule), where he taught until 1934.'We were not able to determine who the artist for the second image (with dog), but we do know, based on the inscription on the third page, that it was a student of Cizek. Extremely scarce and desirable Secessionist art. Some unobtrusive wrinkling as might be expected, a near fine preservation of most ephemeral striking images.