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Family Group
c. 1920s
Kitty Rix
Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?)
Decorative Art and Design
Family Group, c. 1920s. Kitty Rix (Austrian, 1901-?), Wiener Werkstätte (Austria, Vienna, 1903–32). Hand-modeled ceramic, glazed; overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Educational Purchase Fund 1930.409 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Kitty Rix
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Formatted Medium
- hand-modeled ceramic, glazed
- Medium
- hand-modeled, ceramic, glazed
- Dimensions
- Overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.)
- Departments
- Decorative Art and Design
- Accession Number
- 1930.409
- Credit Line
- Educational Purchase Fund
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted
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