id: 111180 accession number: 1929.687 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.687 updated: 2022-01-04 15:08:58.618000 Pair of Cats, c. 1920-28. Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?), Wiener Werkstätte (Austria, Vienna, 1903–32). Hand-modeled ceramic, glazed; overall: 12.5 x 12.1 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1929.687 title: Pair of Cats title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1920-28 creation date earliest: 1915 creation date latest: 1933 current location: creditline: Educational Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria, 20th century technique: hand-modeled ceramic, glazed department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?) - artist Ceramic and textile designer of Jewish ancestry associated with the Wiener Werkstatte. She designed her last pieces in 1931. * Wiener Werkstätte (Austria, Vienna, 1903–32) - modeled by --- measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 12.1 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/4 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 (Purchased from Kuster, Perry & Co., Munich, Germany) date: 1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- 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