id: 378909 accession number: 2020.89 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.89 updated: 2023-03-22 03:05:28.220000 Demitasse Cup and Saucer, c. 1943. Gertrud Natzler (American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–1971), Otto Natzler (American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–2007). Earthenware with gunmetal metallic glaze; cup: 5.7 x 8.8 x 6.5 cm (2 1/4 x 3 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer 2020.89 title: Demitasse Cup and Saucer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1943 creation date earliest: 1938 creation date latest: 1948 current location: creditline: Gift of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer copyright: --- culture: America technique: Earthenware with gunmetal metallic glaze department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gertrud Natzler (American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–1971) - maker * Otto Natzler (American, born Vienna, Austria, 1908–2007) - maker --- measurements: Cup: 5.7 x 8.8 x 6.5 cm (2 1/4 x 3 7/16 x 2 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: “natzler/ n” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA date: 2008 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: This cup and saucer were created shortly after Gertrud and Otto Natzler emigrated to the United States from Austria in 1938 to escape the onslaught of Nazi terror. digital description: Getrud and Otto Natzler were two of the most important American artisan designers working in ceramics in the 20th century. They were both born in Vienna, Austria, where they began their careers absorbing the early modernist aesthetic of that city in the 1920s. The Natzlers adapted the Viennese Secessionist emphasis on the purity of form in their early work as seen in this starkly unadorned cup and saucer. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS No citations page number: url: --- IMAGES