Private Life
In his private life, Tikka embraced art by collecting paintings and watching ballet and theatre. His collection included works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall.
His sexuality was sort of a public secret in Helsinki, as he did not conceal his frequenting in gay nightclubs, but the subject never came up in press or interviews. After Tikka's death, his homosexuality was however mentioned in stories about him.
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“When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)