id: 109705 accession number: 1928.347 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1928.347 updated: 2022-01-04 15:07:40.898000 Giraffe, c. 1928. Germany. Glazed ceramic; overall: 19.1 x 7.6 cm (7 1/2 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1928.347 title: Giraffe title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1928 creation date earliest: 1923 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Educational Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Germany technique: glazed ceramic department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 19.1 x 7.6 cm (7 1/2 x 3 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Stories From Storage opening date: 2021-02-07T05:00:00 Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Die Deutsche Werkstatte, Dresden, Germany, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1928- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Animals fascinated early modern designers interested in kinetic form and patterns of decoration. digital description: Austrian designers Walter Bosse and Kitty Rix feature colorful, bright forms in their ceramic figures that conjure whimsy and invite imagined stories. Their exaggerated features—such as oversize eyes, ears, and whiskers as well as elongated necks or shortened limbs—use caricature to emphasize elements of form, engaging the viewer through humor and charm. Throughout their careers, Bosse and Rix produced modernist designs for the two leading artist workshops—the Wiener Werkstätte and the Austrian Werkbund. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES