Anna Ticho
Anna Ticho | |
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אנה טיכו | |
Born | |
Died | 1 March 1980 | (aged 85)
Monuments | Ticho House |
Citizenship | Israeli |
Spouse | Avraham Albert Ticho |
Anna Ticho (Hebrew: אנה טיכו; 27 October 1894 – 1 March 1980) was an Israeli artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills. Beit Ticho, the house in Jerusalem that she shared with her husband is now a branch of the Israel Museum and a café.
Biography
Anna Ticho was born in
In 1912, Ticho and her mother
The Tichos were exiled to Damascus in December 1917, just days before the British conquest of Jerusalem. There Dr. Ticho entered active service as a medical office in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Anna worked as a nurse.[3] She developed a severe case of typhus, and during her recovery, Ticho returned to her art by sketching landscape scenes, foreshadowing later mastery of this genre.[4] After the war, the Tichos returned to Jerusalem via a long and circuitous route. In December 1918, Dr. Ticho established a private clinic north of the ruined Lemaan Zion building and Anna worked as her husband's assistant.[5]
In 1924, the couple purchased a large house surrounded by gardens. Dr. Ticho saw patients in his eye clinic on the lower floor and the couple lived on the second floor. The mansion, known today as
In 1950, when Dr. Ticho retired, the couple purchased a home in
Toward the end of her life, she willed the Ticho house, her art collection—including many of her own works—and her husband's extensive
Ticho died on 1 March 1980.
Art career
Ticho had several solo exhibitions in Mandatory Palestine and in Europe from the 1920s through the 1940s.[9] An even greater number of her individual exhibitions took place in the years following World War II.[10]
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
Awards and recognition
- In 1970, Ticho received the Yakir Yerushalayim (Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem) award.[11]
- In 1975, Ticho was awarded the Willem Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
- In 1980, she was awarded the Israel Prize, for painting (with Pinchas Litvinovsky).[12]
Selected solo exhibitions
- 1959 - Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
- 1959 - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
- 1962 - Baltimore Museum of Art
- 1964 - Art Institute of Chicago
- 1964 - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
- 1967 - Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
- 1970 - Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New york
- 1972 - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England
- 1973 - Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1974 - Tel Aviv Museum of Art
- 1978 - Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- 1983 - Jewish Museum (Manhattan), New York
- 2010 - Hecht Museum, University of Haifa, Israel
- 2019 - Israel Museum, Ticho House, Jerusalem
See also
References
- ISBN 978-965-229-665-8.
- ^ Reifler. Days of Ticho, p 81.
- ^ The days and years of the Tichos
- ^ Reifler. Days of Ticho, p 181.
- ^ Reifler. Days of Ticho, p 198.
- ^ "Jerusalem Attractions". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2007-10-29.
- ^ Reifler. Days of Ticho, p 248.
- ^ The days and years of the Tichos
- ^ Reifler, Days of Ticho, p 466.
- ^ Salmon, Irit. Anna Ticho, 1894-1980. Retrieved January 4, 2015.
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ignored (help) - ^ "Recipients of Yakir Yerushalayim award (in Hebrew)". Archived from the original on 2013-10-22. City of Jerusalem official website
- ^ "Israel Prize Official Site – Recipients in 1980 (in Hebrew)".
External links
- "Anna Ticho". Information Center for Israeli Art. Israel Museum. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- Anna Ticho collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved February 2012.