Anna Ticho

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Anna Ticho, 1978

Anna Ticho , Hebrew אנה טיכו(born October 27, 1894 in Brno , Austria-Hungary ; died March 1, 1980 in Jerusalem ) was an Israeli painter.

Life

Anna Ticho was a daughter of Pinchas Ticho and Berta Braun. At the age of 15 she began to learn to draw at an art school in Vienna , which was directed by Ernst Nowak . In 1912 she emigrated with her mother to Mutesarriflik Jerusalem in Palestine , which was then part of the Ottoman Empire . She followed her cousin and fiancé, the ophthalmologist Avraham Albert Ticho (1883–1960), who had gone to Palestine a few months earlier. The couple married in Jerusalem on November 7, 1912 . Anna Ticho worked as her husband's assistant in the eye clinic he opened.

During the First World War, the Tichos had to leave Jerusalem and went to Damascus in December 1917, just days before the British conquered Jerusalem . In Damascus, Anna Ticho fell ill with typhus . During her recovery she began to be artistically active again and mainly painted landscapes. In December 1918, the Tichos was finally able to return to Jerusalem.

In 1924, the Tichos in Jerusalem purchased a large house surrounded by a garden where they lived and worked. The property was probably built around 1864 for the Nashashibis, an important family in Jerusalem, and was previously inhabited by the antique dealer and forger Wilhelm Moses Shapira . The house of the Tichos developed into a meeting place for artists, writers and other intellectuals as well as local politicians and members of the British mandate administration. At the end of her life, Ticho bequeathed the house, her art collection, which also included many of her own works, and her husband's large Judaica collection to the city of Jerusalem. The Ticho House now functions as part of the Israel Museum .

Create

When Ticho began to paint and draw again in the 1930s, the dramatic light and the scenic contrasts of the Middle East had a lasting influence on her artistic work. During this time she created numerous distinctive drawings of the Jerusalem mountains and portraits.

Ticho had several solo exhibitions in Mandate Palestine as well as in Europe during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, followed by an even larger number of solo exhibitions after World War II . Today Ticho's drawings and watercolors can be found in numerous important museums around the world.

Prices

  • In 1970 Ticho received the Yakir Yerushalayim Prize (literally: worthy citizens of Jerusalem).
  • In 1980 she received the Israel Prize for Painting.

literature

Web links

Commons : Anna Ticho  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reifler, David M. Days of Ticho: Empire, Mandate, Medicine, and Art in the Holy Land. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 2015/5775, p. 22. ISBN 978-965-229-665-8 .
  2. ↑ Reifler. Days of Ticho , p. 81.
  3. ↑ Reifler. Days of Ticho , p. 181.
  4. ↑ Jerusalem Attractions . In: The New York Times . Archived from the original on October 29, 2007. 
  5. ↑ Reifler. Days of Ticho , p. 248.
  6. ^ Reifler, Days of Ticho , p. 466.
  7. ^ Irit Salmon: Anna Ticho, 1894–1980 . In: Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia . February 27, 2009 ( jwa.org ).
  8. ^ Recipients of Yakir Yerushalayim award (Hebrew) . Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. City of Jerusalem official website
  9. ^ Israel Prize Official Site - Recipients in 1980 (Hebrew) .
personal data
SURNAME Ticho, Anna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli painter
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH March 1, 1980
Place of death Jerusalem