Anna Ticho
Yesterday, coincidentally, both I and my daughter Miriam were in Jerusalem, and so we met at the Anna Ticho house for tea.
This is a beautiful old stone house that served as the home of the Ticho family from the 1920s until the 1960s when it was bequeathed to the Israeli people and is now a branch of the Israel Museum. It has a small restaurant and gallery.
The mansion was built in the 1860s as one of the first buildings outside the walls of the old city and stands now in an alley near Jaffa Road. But, originally it included a large plot of land that stretched down to Jaffa Road. The Tichos, from Moravia, settled in Jerusalem in 1912 and bought the mansion in 1924. It served as Dr. Ticho's private opthalmic hospital, the first in the Middle East. Over the years it was expanded and now is a large stone mansion. His wife Anna was his medical assistant, and helped him in his practice. People came from all over the Middle East to be treated by him.
Anna was herself a trained artist, having studied in Vienna, and used her spare time wandering around the Jerusalem area sketching and drawing the typically treeless, ancient, rounded hills. The lack of urban development then allowed her to see much that has long since been built over. Her drawings earned her fame and she was one of the founders of the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem.
There was an exhibit of women's portraits called "A room of her own," that included several Picassos, Matisse and others from the Israel Museum collection. There was also an exhibit of some of Anna Ticho's beautiful drawings. Miriam has a large reproduction of one of her drawings that she bought many years ago and that travelled with her back and forth to the States.
If you have never seen Anna Ticho's drawings go to Wikipedia or Google, and if you are in Jerusalem, the Anna Ticho house is an excellent place to meet and relax in the center of the City.
This is a beautiful old stone house that served as the home of the Ticho family from the 1920s until the 1960s when it was bequeathed to the Israeli people and is now a branch of the Israel Museum. It has a small restaurant and gallery.
The mansion was built in the 1860s as one of the first buildings outside the walls of the old city and stands now in an alley near Jaffa Road. But, originally it included a large plot of land that stretched down to Jaffa Road. The Tichos, from Moravia, settled in Jerusalem in 1912 and bought the mansion in 1924. It served as Dr. Ticho's private opthalmic hospital, the first in the Middle East. Over the years it was expanded and now is a large stone mansion. His wife Anna was his medical assistant, and helped him in his practice. People came from all over the Middle East to be treated by him.
Anna was herself a trained artist, having studied in Vienna, and used her spare time wandering around the Jerusalem area sketching and drawing the typically treeless, ancient, rounded hills. The lack of urban development then allowed her to see much that has long since been built over. Her drawings earned her fame and she was one of the founders of the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem.
There was an exhibit of women's portraits called "A room of her own," that included several Picassos, Matisse and others from the Israel Museum collection. There was also an exhibit of some of Anna Ticho's beautiful drawings. Miriam has a large reproduction of one of her drawings that she bought many years ago and that travelled with her back and forth to the States.
If you have never seen Anna Ticho's drawings go to Wikipedia or Google, and if you are in Jerusalem, the Anna Ticho house is an excellent place to meet and relax in the center of the City.
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