The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 14, 2024
Dog
c. 1925–29
Location: not on view
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The colorful enameled surface and stylized form of this dog express the child-like simplicity of its design.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.- 1930(Austrian Werkbund, Vienna, Austria, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1930-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=Dog|url=false|author=Karl Rotter-Reinhold Duschka Workshop|year=c. 1925–29|access-date=14 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.286