Lithograph, 56x77 cm signed, numbered
 
Anna Ticho  (1894 - 1980) was a Jewish artist who became famous for her drawings of the Jerusalem hills.
 
Anna Ticho, Israeli, born Austro-Hungarian Empire. For her Achievements, she had received the Israel Prize in 1980.
Anna Ticho was born in Brno, Moravia (today Czech Republic) and grew up in Vienna, where she studied art. In June 1912, she moved to Jerusalem to marry her fiancée, Dr. Avraham Ticho, an ophthalmologist. She spent World War I in Damascus with her husband, who was serving as a physician with the Austrian and German armies. In 1924, the couple purchased a home in Jerusalem and set up a private eye clinic where Ticho worked as her husband's assistant.
In Jerusalem, Ticho began to draw landscapes. Her early work was graphic, depicting mountains without sky or human figures. From the 1950s, she painted still-lifes in watercolor. In the 1960s, after her husband's death, she branched out into landscapes of other locales in Israel. Ticho's later work is free and expressive.
After her death in 1980, her artwork and home were bequeathed to the Israel Museum. Ticho House is now a gallery featuring a permanent display of her work and changing exhibitions.
Education
1906 Private lessons in Painting and Drawing
1909 Vienna Art School, Vienna, Austria
Awards And Prizes
1940 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa
1964 Erest Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Jerusalem
1970 Worthy Citizen of Jerusalem Award, Jerusalem Municipality
1975 Sandberg Prize for Israeli Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1980 Israel Prize for Painting