He was the pupil of Bertalan Székely at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts, and of Simon Hollósy in Nagybánya. He first found renown as a graphic artist, in 1907. He illustrated the works of authors who wrote symbolic and deep-psychological prose, while an individual album of his work also appeared with an introduction from Aladár Bálint.
Bibliography: Farkas, Zoltán: Tichy Kálmán és Tichy Gyula, A Gyűjtő, 1916/1, 1-10. o A Tichy testvérek emlékkiállítása, arranged by F. Mihály, Ida, exhibition cat., Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, 1979. o Mezei, Ottó: Tichy Gyula rejtélyes művészete, Művészet, 1986/11-12, 19-24.