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
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creation date:			c. 1920-28
creation date earliest:		1915
creation date latest:		1933
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creditline:			Educational Purchase Fund
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culture:	Austria, 20th century
technique:	hand-modeled ceramic, glazed
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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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

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measurements: Overall: 12.5 x 12.1 cm (4 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Purchased from Kuster, Perry & Co., Munich, Germany)
	date: 1929
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1929-
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fun fact: 
Animals fascinated early modern designers interested in kinetic form and patterns of decoration.

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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.

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