Hans Tichy
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Hans Tichy | |
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| Born | July 27, 1861 |
| Died | October 28, 1925 (aged 64) |
Hans Tichy (27 July 1861 in Brno – 28 October 1925 in Vienna) was an Austrian artist and a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna from 1880 to 1884, under Christian Griepenkerl and August Eisenmenger. Tichy was also a student of the genre painter August von Pettenkofen.[1]
He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.[2] He was elected to the presidency of the group in 1902.[3][4] His painting, At the Fountain of Love, was exhibited with the group;[5] it won him the Reichel Prize from the Academy,[6] and it was bought by the Moderne Galerie (now the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere).[7]
With Richard Kauffungen in 1900, he ran classes for a women's art school on drawing and painting from living models.[8] In 1914, he was made a professor of the Vienna Academy.[9]
- Second Great Berlin Art Exhibition, 1894.[10]
- Fourth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1899.[11]
- Twentieth Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1904. Orpheus and Eurydice shown.[12]
- Spring Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1906.[13]
- Spring Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1908. At the Fountain of Love shown.[5]
- Spring Exhibition of the Vienna Secession, 1910.[14]
- International Art Exhibition, Rome, 1911.[15]
- Winter Exhibition of the Munich Secession, 1912.[16]
