id: 111182 accession number: 1929.690 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1929.690 updated: 2023-01-10 20:03:49.143000 Figure of a Couple Sitting on a Bench, c. 1920–28. Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?), Wiener Werkstätte (Austria, Vienna, 1903–32). Glazed ceramic; overall: 12.7 x 13.3 cm (5 x 5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1929.690 title: Figure of a Couple Sitting on a Bench title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1920–28 creation date earliest: 1920 creation date latest: 1928 current location: creditline: Educational Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Austria, Vienna, 20th century technique: glazed ceramic department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?) - designed by 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) - maker --- measurements: Overall: 12.7 x 13.3 cm (5 x 5 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Stamped "W.W. #496" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art Deco opening date: 1973-12-02T05:00:00 Art Deco. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (organizer) (December 2, 1973-January 27, 1974). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Rena Rosenthal, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1929 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1929- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: 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