Hans Tichy
Austrian painter
Died when: 64 years 93 days (771 months)Star Sign: Leo
Hans Tichy (27 July 1861, Brno – 28 October 1925, 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.
He was a founding member of the Vienna Secession.He was elected to the presidency of the group in 1902.His painting, At the Fountain of Love, was exhibited with the group; it won him the from the Academy, and it was bought by the Moderne Galerie (now the Österreichische Galerie Belvedere).
With in 1900, he ran classes for a women's art school on drawing and painting from living models.In 1914, he was made a professor of the Vienna Academy.
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