Zika ascher biography of michaels

          Moore's first forays into textile design began in the s, when Czech émigré Zika Ascher set up a small textile business in London.

        1. Moore's first forays into textile design began in the s, when Czech émigré Zika Ascher set up a small textile business in London.
        2. For Zika first made his name as a fearless downhill skier, representing his country in many international competitions.
        3. Before the war Zika Ascher was a star Czech skier.
        4. Zikmund Ascher entered the family textile business in Prague before settling in London with his wife Lida in following their honeymoon in Norway.
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          6. Before the war Zika Ascher was a star Czech skier..

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          Born:1910 Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic)

          Died:1992 London, England

          Year of Migration to the UK:1939

          Other name/s: Zikmund Ascher


          Biography

          Textile designer and artist Zika (Zikmund) Ascher was born to Jewish parents in Prague, Austria-Hungary (now the Czech Republic) in 1910.

          A talented skier, Ascher represented his country in downhill skiing in Hitler's Winter Olympics 1936 in Garmish-Partenkirchen and competed in three world championships in 1935, 1937, and 1938, when he won the Grand Prix.

          He was known as 'Šílený hedvábník' ('the Mad Silkman') on the slopes, a nod to his family's textile business.

          Not only that, but it could be said that the Ascher pieces set the stage for those in the Day. Zika and Lida Ascher were Czech refugees in London when they.

          In the 1930s Ascher and his brother Josef established their own textile business in central Prague. In 1938, he met Lida Tydlitatova when she entered the textile store and they married in 1939. Lida's mother was fiercely anti-Semitic and opposed to the couple, hence Ascher converted to Catholicism on 22 December 1938, two months before the