id:			111760
accession number:	1930.286
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1930.286
updated:		2022-10-28 21:17:27.149000

Dog, c. 1925–29. Karl Rotter-Reinhold Duschka Workshop (Austria, Vienna). Enamel on copper; overall: 5.1 cm (2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1930.286

title:				Dog
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creation date:			c. 1925–29
creation date earliest:		1925
creation date latest:		1929
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creditline:			Educational Purchase Fund
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culture:	Austria, Vienna, 20th century
technique:	enamel on copper
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Enamel
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CREATORS

* Karl Rotter-Reinhold Duschka Workshop (Austria, Vienna)  - maker

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measurements: Overall: 5.1 cm (2 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

	(Austrian Werkbund, Vienna, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 1930
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1930-
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fun fact: 
The colorful enameled surface and stylized form of this dog express the child-like simplicity of its design.

digital description: 
In the early 1900s, bending and cutting sheet metal to produce dynamic shapes was one of the most common techniques used to teach natural form in design schools in Vienna. From this method evolved the commercial production of small polished or enameled figures of popular animals from the circus or farm—including giraffes, foxes, and dogs—exaggerated in their modernist forms. The toy animals made for the Hagenauer Workshop in Vienna in the early 1930s by artisan Reinhold Duschka reveal a poignant connection to the Second World War. He harbored the young Jewish girl Lucia Heilmann and her mother from the Nazis within the walls of his studio, helping them elude capture during the Holocaust.

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