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	1875, May 5 Raphael Kirchner was born in Vienna, to a middle class family 1885/1890 He had music lessons and attended the Conservatoire in Vienna 1890/1894 He studied at the Vienna School of Art 1894/1897 He attended an art course at the Spezialschule fur Historienmalerei in Vienna, under the guidance of August Eisenmerger, professor at the Vienna Academy 1896 He began his activity as a portrait artist 1897 The first known works as illustrator: the poster for «Wiener Illustrirte», a woman's magazine published in Vienna some illustrations for the album Radlerei, commissioned by Continental Pneumatic the first known set of postcards, «Wiener Typen» 1898 He drew his first sets of postcards for the publishers Philipp & Kramer and Back & Schmitt, both from Vienna, and Theo Stroefer from Nuremberg 1899 He drew the cover and some illustrations for the book Oesterreichisches Kaiser Jubilaums Dichterbuch, published by Eduard Hassenberger in Vienna

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