Anna Ticho

Ticho worked between 1894 and 1980 across painter and draftsperson. The registers place that work in portrait and graphics. Every statement below returns to a source shown in the evidence panel; where the record is silent or divided, the article says so instead of resolving it.

Anna Ticho studied at Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Training under Willi Nowak is recorded. The recorded working language is Czech and Hebrew. The field of work recorded is painting and visual arts. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait and graphics. Residence is recorded at Jerusalem. Work by Anna Ticho is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Primt Workshop and Bar-David Museum of Art and Judaica. Distinctions recorded are Israel Prize, Sandberg Prize, Yakir Yerushalayim and Dizengoff Prize.

• Name — Anna Ticho • Native Name — אנה טיכו • Born — 27 October 1894 • Birthplace — Brno Moravia (historicaltoday in the Czech Republic) • Died — 1 March 1980 • Place of death — Jerusalem, Israel • Monuments — Ticho House • Citizenship — Israeli • Spouse — Avraham Albert Ticho

Anna Ticho was born in Brno, Moravia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (today the Czech Republic). Her mother's name was Bertha. At the age of 15, she began to study drawing in Vienna in an art school under the directorship of Ernst Nowak. In 1912, Ticho and her mother immigrated from Vienna to what was then the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem in the Ottoman Empire. Ticho's fiancé, ophthalmologist Avraham Albert Ticho (1883–1960), who was also her first cousin, had arrived from Vienna four months prior after learning that the Leman'an Zion eye clinic needed a doctor to run it. They married on 7 November 1912 in Jerusalem. 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. 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. 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. 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 Ticho House, was built around 1864, apparently for the Nashashibis, a prominent local family. Before the Tichos lived there it was the family home of the antiquities dealer and forger Wilhelm Moses Shapira. The Tichos hosted local and British government officials in the house, as well as many artists, writers, academics and intellectuals. In 1950, when Dr. Ticho retired, the couple purchased a home in Motza Ilit where Anna could concentrate on her drawing and painting. Toward the end of her life, she willed the Ticho house, her art collectionincluding many of her own worksand her husband's extensive Judaica collection to the Israel Museum. Ticho died on 1 March 1980.

Ticho had several solo exhibitions in Mandatory Palestine and in Europe from the 1920s through the 1940s. An even greater number of her individual exhibitions took place in the years following World War II. 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.

• 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

Anna Ticho is recorded with the occupation draftsperson. Classed in the genre graphics. Classed in the genre portrait. Established in Bibliothèque nationale de France under 14958572g. Established in Library of Congress under n83223229. Established in RKDartists under 77398. Recorded as painter and draftsperson. Established in FAST under 121943. How Anna Ticho was received and recognised. Ticho received Yakir Yerushalayim in 1970. Ticho received Dizengoff Prize in 1940. Ticho received Sandberg Prize in 1975. Ticho received Israel Prize in 1980.