Anna Ticho
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Anna Ticho
(b Br?nn, Moravia [now Brno, Czech Republic], 27 Oct 1894; d Jerusalem, 1 March 1980). Israeli painter and draughtsman of Moravian birth. She spent her childhood in Vienna, having her first drawing lesson in 1906 and enrolling at an art school under the German painter Ernst Nowak (1851-1919) in 1909. While there she saw the works of Klimt, Schiele and Kokoschka and frequented the Graphische Sammlung Albertina to see the Old Master drawings. She moved to Jerusalem in 1912; here she married an ophthalmic surgeon, Dr Albert Abraham Ticho. From 1917 to 1919 she stayed in Damascus while her husband worked as a medical officer in the Austrian army. She returned to Jerusalem in 1919 where she remained for the rest of her life except for occasional trips to the USA and Europe. In 1932 she was one of the founder-members of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Crafts in Jerusalem.
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Anna Ticho
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| Native name | אנה טיכו |
| Born | 1894 Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Czech Republic) |
| Died | 1980 |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Religion | Jewish |
| Spouse | Avraham Albert Ticho |
Anna Ticho (Hebrew: אנה טיכו) (born 1894, died 1980) was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.
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Biography
Anna Ticho was born in Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today Czech Republic) in 1894. At the age of 15, she began to study drawing in Vienna.
In 1912 she immigrated to Palestine with her cousin, the respected ophthalmologist Avraham Albert Ticho (1883–1960), whom she later married. They settled in Jerusalem, where Dr. Ticho opened an eye clinic and Anna worked as his assistant. The clinic closed in 1960 after the death of Dr. Ticho.
In 1924, the couple purchased a large house surrounded by gardens, built in 1880 for the Nashashibis, a prominent local family, where they lived and worked.[1] The house had previously been lived in by antiquities dealer and forger Herman Shapira. Ticho hosted local and British government officials in her home, as well as many artists, writers, academics and intellectuals. Toward the end of her life, she willed the house, her art collection, including many of her own works, and her husband's extensive Judaica collection to the city of Jerusalem.
She died in 1980. Ticho House operates today as a branch of the Israel Museum, and houses a popular restaurant and cafe.
Artistic themes
While the dramatically different light of the Middle East and the starkness of the landscape inhibited her artistic pursuits at first, in the 1930s Ticho went back to drawing and painting. It was then that she produced many of the distinctive drawings of the hills of Jerusalem and portraits of local people for which she became well known. Today, Ticho's drawings and watercolors can be found in major museums around the world.
Awards
- In 1970, Ticho received the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award.[2]
- In 1980, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for painting.[3]+
- Sandberg Prize recipient
In 2005, she was voted the 190th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[4]
References
- ^ "Jerusalem Attractions". The New York Times. http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/middle-east/israel/jerusalem/attraction-detail.html?vid=1154654611891.
- ^ "Recipients of Yakir Yerushalayim award (in Hebrew)". http://www.jerusalem.muni.il/jer_main/TopSiteJeru.asp?newstr=3&src=/jer_sys/publish/HtmlFiles/1030/results_pub_id=12594.html&cont=895. City of Jerusalem official website
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1980 (in Hebrew)". http://cms.education.gov.il/EducationCMS/Units/PrasIsrael/Tashlag/Tashmab_Tashlag_Rikuz.htm?DictionaryKey=Tasham.
- ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
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