The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 13, 2026

A stylized brass sculpture consists of thin, curving ribbons forming an antelope. It stands on a rectangular base with downward-curving edges. Two large horns loop backward in wide circles above a folded snout. A vertical neck connects to an arched body supported by four legs. The polished golden surface glints in the light, highlighting the fluid, intersecting shapes and varied reflections across the metallic structure.

Antelope

c. 1925–30
maker

Karl Rotter-Reinhold Duschka Workshop

(Austria, Vienna)
Austria, Vienna
cut sheet brass
10.2 cm (4 in.)
Educational Purchase Fund 1930.279
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Animals fascinated early modern designers interested in kinetic form and pattern.

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 exaggerated in their modernist forms.
  • 1930
    (Austrian Werkbund, Vienna, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1930-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
  • {{cite web|title=Antelope|url=false|author=Karl Rotter-Reinhold Duschka Workshop|year=c. 1925–30|access-date=13 April 2026|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.279