Kitty Rix. Figure of a Couple Sitting on a Bench, c. 1920–28. glazed ceramic, Overall: 12.7 x 13.3 cm (5 x 5 1/4 in.). Educational Purchase Fund, 1929.690. Copyrighted.

Figure of a Couple Sitting on a Bench

c. 1920–28

Kitty Rix

Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?)

Decorative Art and Design

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 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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