Judy Cassab

Judy Cassab with her baby (1945)

Judy Cassab AO CBE (born August 15, 1920 in Vienna , Austria ; † November 3, 2015 in Randwick , Sydney , Australia ) was an Australian painter and two-time winner of the Archibald Prize .

Life

Judy Cassab was born as Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 . She was the daughter of the Hungarian Jew Imre Kaszab and his wife Ilona (née Kont). Her husband Jancsi Kampfner was drafted into forced labor by the National Socialists in 1941 and returned to Hungary in 1944, where he had to go into hiding. She herself studied art in Budapest and hid her Jewish identity under the name of her former maid Maria Koperdak . Her entire immediate family died in the Holocaust .

Her husband's critical political views prompted the family to move to Vienna in 1949 because he had lost his job in Hungary. She moved to Australia with her husband and two sons in 1951 and settled in Sydney. At this point she was already a recognized painter.

She was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice, in 1960 for a portrait by Stan Rapotec and in 1967 for a portrait by Margo Lewers . She painted the Australian outback and was known as a portrait painter. She had more than 70 exhibitions in Australia as well as in Paris and London . Cassab gave away 400 of her paintings to various galleries in Australia.

Judy Cassab died on November 3, 2015 in a nursing home in Randwick, a suburb of Sydney.

Honors

On June 14, 1969 she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her services to the visual arts .
On January 26, 1988, she became Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her contributions to the visual arts.
In 1995 she published her childhood diaries, for which she received the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers.
On March 3, 1995, she was awarded a Doctor of Letters ( honoris causa ) from the University of Sydney .
In 2011 she received the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary .

literature

Brenda Niall: Judy Cassab. A portrait. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2005, ISBN 1-74114-474-4 .

Web links

Official website (English)
Cassab, Judy (1920–) on womenaustralia.info (English)
Judy Cassab. A portrait. on theage.com.au (English)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Kylie Northover and Louise Rugendyke: Two time Archibald Prize winner and Holocaust surviver Judy Cassab dies. In: smh.com.au. Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015.
^ ^A ^b ^c Patricia Maunder: Judy Cassab: Holocaust survivor, society darling and acclaimed portrait artist. In: smh.com.au. Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015.
↑ Judy Cassab CBE. In: itsanhonour.gov.au. Australian Honors Database, accessed November 3, 2015 .
↑ Judy Cassab AO. In: itsanhonour.gov.au. Australian Honors Database, accessed November 3, 2015 .
^ Citation for Honorary Doctorate - University of Sydney. In: usyd.edu.au. The University of Sydney, archived from the original on September 14, 2007 ; accessed on November 3, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Cassab, Judy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kaszab, Judit (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian painter
DATE OF BIRTH	August 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna , Austria
DATE OF DEATH	3rd November 2015
Place of death	Randwick , Sydney , Australia

[smh-1] Kylie Northover and Louise Rugendyke: Two time Archibald Prize winner and Holocaust surviver Judy Cassab dies. In: smh.com.au. Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015.

[smh2-2] A ^b ^c Patricia Maunder: Judy Cassab: Holocaust survivor, society darling and acclaimed portrait artist. In: smh.com.au. Sydney Morning Herald , November 3, 2015, accessed November 3, 2015.

[3] Judy Cassab CBE. In: itsanhonour.gov.au. Australian Honors Database, accessed November 3, 2015 .

[4] Judy Cassab AO. In: itsanhonour.gov.au. Australian Honors Database, accessed November 3, 2015 .

[5] Citation for Honorary Doctorate - University of Sydney. In: usyd.edu.au. The University of Sydney, archived from the original on September 14, 2007 ; accessed on November 3, 2015 .