The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 19, 2024
Hound
c. 1928–30
Location: not on view
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Animals fascinated early modern designers interested in kinetic form and patterns of decoration.Description
In the 1920s the Vienna Workshop (Wiener Werkstätte) promoted the work of prominent toy designers as serious expressions of art to be studied alongside other artistic genres such as painting and sculpture admired by adults. Artisans like Karl Hagenauer and Reinhold Duschka, working in Vienna during the years before the First World War, embraced the concept that within every child is an artist and in every artist there is a child. This idea conveyed a sense of liberation from the strictures of formality and tradition.The colorful compositions and sense of whimsy in their designs for children, such as this Miniature Figure of a Hound, reflected Viennese decorative art in general between the wars.- 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=Hound|url=false|author=Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien|year=c. 1928–30|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1930.291