Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920 to Hungarian parents. Why did the Kaszab family move to Australia? Following. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Knowing our history, Written by Elizabeth Heffernan, RAHS Intern. Be notified when an answer is posted. From Judy Cassabs scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. Judy Cassab has survived Nazi persecution, poverty and enjoyed a great, enduring love. I made one condition - that we stay in first-class hotels, not the backpackers' lodges he prefers. She died on November 3, 2015 in Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Tributes flow for one of Australia's most acclaimed portrait painters, Judy Cassab, who has died at the age of 95. Title: Judy Cassab: An Australian Story . A goodness that radiated from her and that was palpable. Her work is poignant, elegant and instinctual, cut by an awareness that beauty is as precarious as it precious. Sold at Auction: Judy Cassab (1920-2015) Alias: Judy CasabJudy Kaszab Painter 750 items Sort By: Per page Lawsons 179 Davidson Auctions 154 Leonard Joel 108 Shapiro Auctioneers 70 GFL Fine Art 32 Theodore Bruce 29 Mossgreen Auctions 23 Bonhams 15 Bargain Hunt Auctions 13 Bay East Auctions 11 Christie's 8 Joel 7 Lugosi Auctioneers & Valuers 7 Her and her husband wandered between cities across Europe in search of a new home. Her sitters in Britain included such notables as top fashion model Barbara Goalen, movie star Valerie Hobson, Conservative Party politician Sir Peter Thorneycroft (who had held office as Chancellor of the Exchequer), and Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell. Please try again later. After Jancsi was taken away, Judy went to study Art in Budapest. Stop being such a coward.'. A Jewish Second World War refugee, she arrived in Australia in 1951 and in 1967, was the first woman to win the Archibald twice. She pictures herself at work, before her easel. Art & Collectors. View Judy Cassab biographical information, artworks upcoming at auction, and sale prices from our price archives. Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. Judy Cassab has held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as others in Paris and London. Your subtotal today is $-.--. At last I had parental approval - it meant a lot to me. See more ideas about judy, australian painters, painting. In 1988 she was awarded an Order of Australia (AO) for her services to art. Following the publication of her diaries in 1995, Sydney University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon. When John went to live on the commune, I was so worried, but Peter told me: "John is the happiest he's ever been. As the wars end drew nearer, bombing raids increased and Judy spent more time in bomb shelters. Wiki User. . How fortunate for all concerned that this country, in its own young innocence and goodness, welcomed her aboard., Get The AJN Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories I set up a studio in Peter's poolside gazebo, and Judy happily sketches as I sculpt. Opposite: Judy Cassab today and (right) in 1961, He was 97 when he died in 2001, Judy was almost 80. Have an update or correction? They were the only members of their families to do so. [7], On 26 January 1988 Cassab was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) again in "recognition of service to the visual arts". On the evening of the funeral there was a gathering of family and friends at the home of Cassabs other son, Peter Kampfner, and during the evening a large box of fruit was delivered to the house. ISBN 0 642 10674 6 Reproduced with permission. Title: Judy Cassab diariesAuthor: Judy CassabPublisher: Random HousePlace of publication: SydneyYear of Publication: 1996Location of Book: Sir Louis Matheson Library, Monash University Clayton CampusCities/town/camps: Hungary: BudapestNote: those cities/towns/camps underlined are those which are most central to the narrative. She moved to Austr. Judy Cassab/Born. Happy Womens History Month! Judy Cassab Australian, b. You can go all the way from the UK to Australia or New Zealand by sea, either a leisurely direct voyage by infrequent round-the-world cruise, or by one of the few remaining passenger-carrying freighters, sometimes with the need to switch ships in either the USA or SE Asia. Where did Judy cassab come from? View our latest updates. The couple moved to Sydney with their two sons in 1951, settling in Woollahra. Her work is poignant, elegant and instinctual, cut by an awareness that beauty is as precarious as it precious. Papers of Judy Cassab, 1944-2006 [manuscript], 1944 - 2006. She graduated from school there in 1938. When she finally arrived in Australia, Cassab suffered from the residue of trauma, sometimes experiencing physical sickness. I wanted a simpler lifestyle. T. Meanwhile, during her 1959 exhibition Cassab had also sold a study of a woman's head to a director of a major shipping company, the Orient Line. Judy's sons, John and Peter help carry her portrait of Rapotec, her entry in the 1959 Archibald Prize. Born in Vienna, she studied art in Prague and at the Budapest Academy before adopting false papers and 'going underground' to escape the persecution of Hungarian Jews. Jancsi, a chemical engineer, had managed a brewery in Hungary, but had to restart as a factory worker. The book was a hit with readers . As Judy survived other, earlier tyrants, I think she would expect me to remain at my post on this occasion. I changed my surname from Kampfner to Seed, moved to a commune in northern NSW and became preoccupied with the environmental movement, travelling overseas lecturing and running workshops. Judy Cassab, the Australian painter, two time winner of the Archibald portrait prize and Holocaust survivor has died in Sydney at the age of 95. In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. She won the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture in 1961 and 1968. JUDY CASSAB: A PORTRAIT By Brenda Niall, Allen & Unwin, $39.95. We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands. Vienna-born and Budapest-trained Australian painter Judy Cassab. ID: UNSW P 1963/0291 (082077) . 1996 - Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Award, 1997 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, 1998 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, 2003 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, 2003 - The Trustee Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2004 - The Painters and Sculptors Association of Australia Medal, This page was last edited on 9 December 2022, at 02:07. Here, its a physical force, hitting you not only frontally but sideways and from the back I understood, for the first time since arriving in Australia, that one can love the soil. RAHS Friend. As well as painting social luminaries, royals, fellow artists, family and friends, she was also a prolific draughtswoman and an acclaimed landscape artist. I scraped through school, then did a BA in psychology and philosophy at Sydney Uni, then started sculpture. Jancsi and I visited the commune when Bodhi was born. Cassab also had several other commissions to fulfill in London as a result of the 1959 exhibition. Cassab lost most of her family to the Holocaust. JUDY REPRESENTED IN OVER 60 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS. In his eulogy at the funeral, Seed said:What I would like tocelebrate now isthe goodness which was so central to her character, to her very being. Judy Cassab has always been shadowed by her past. As a migrant and as a woman, she overcame multiple remarkable obstacles to define her place and purpose as an. Deceased (19202015) Judy Cassab (1920 - 2015) was active/lived in Australia, Austria. Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. Judy Cassab; Australian Dictionary of Biography, Australian National University. [4] Judys career took off soon after their arrival with her commissioned portrait of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones wife. In Brief Vienna-born, Budapest-trained painter Judy Cassab, who survived the Holocaust with the help of her non-Jewish maid's identity papers, arrived in Australia in 1951 with her husband and their two small sons. Judy CASSAB Also known as: ne Kaszab, Maria Koperdak, Judy Kampfner Born: 15 August 1920 Died: 3 November 2015 Special Achievements: 1969 - Second woman to win the Archibald Prize, which she won twice. Judy still paints every day, portraits or landscapes, and writes her daily diary. I didn't get on with my brother, had a distant relationship with my father, and pushed my mother's affection away. Judy Cassab died in November 2015, leaving behind a significant body of work. Our lives might have once seemed different, but I came to see that we've both travelled similar journeys. I'm so happy he's sculpting again, I love watching him work, and sketching beside him. art when she was 12 years old as well as starting to keep a diary. It is the Universitys expectation that only those who are well and not presenting with COVID-19 symptoms attend a Monash campus or location. Judy Cassab died in November 2015, leaving behind a significant body of work, exhibited both in Australia and internationally. Seed said: Someone checked the card to see who it was from and it read, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna in 1920. US$215-US$258. [9], In 2011 Cassab was awarded Hungarys Gold Cross of Merit. Born Judit Kaszab into a Hungarian Jewish intellectual family in 1920, she came to . Last updated: Feb 2020, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Gender, Resilience and Adaptation in Melbournes Holocaust Survivor Community, Esotericism and exotericism in old Yiddish texts, Like a Family: An Investigation into Gender in Melbourne's Jewish Organisations. She died in Sydney in 2015, aged 95. She began her formal studies at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but these were cut short by the oncoming Second World War and she was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939. Over the years she held more than 70 solo exhibitions throughout Australia, as well as in London and Paris. Her work is poignant, elegant and instinctual, cut by an awareness that beauty is as precarious as it precious. Colour has always been something which pops up here and there in spots and hues, something on which the painters glance focuses. After Jancsi died, John took me to India. After the war Cassab and her husband learnt that their immediate families had died in Nazi concentration camps; Cassab herself evaded persecution during the war by posing as her familys Catholic maid. Art & Collectors Pty Ltdartandcollectors@gmail.com0499 184 964Lvl 1/165 Gertrude St, Fitzroy VIC 3065, South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (GBP ). By this time Judy was duplicating documents and smuggling medicine for the underground resistance movement. The gallerys owner was also a Holocaust survivor from Hungary. She was a Francophile. Writing, I thought, is just a habit like washing my teeth; I could not go to bed without doing it. A Jewish Second World War refugee, she arrived in Australia in 1951 and in 1967, was the first woman to win the Archibald twice. . . Byron Echo Print Archive (previous volume). The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letterseditor. He's searching for inner meanings, just as I always search for inner meanings when I paint portraits and landscapes. Born in 1920, she lived in Hungary until 1949, and she and her family immigrated to Australia in 1951. From Cassab's scrapbook deposited in the National Library of Australia: Commander of the Order of the British Empire, "Two time Archibald Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Judy Cassab dies", Profile on The Australian Women's Register, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Judy_Cassab&oldid=1126385213, 1980 - Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane, 1984 - Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane, 1985 - Benalla Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1985 - Hamilton Regional Gallery, Victoria, 1987 - David Ellis Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria, 1989 - Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane, 1990 - Festival of Perth, Fremantle Arts Centre, 1991 - Verlie Just Town Gallery, Brisbane, 2013 - National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, 1955 - The Australian Women's Weekly Prize, 1956 - The Australian Women's Weekly Prize, 1964 - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize, 1964 - The Helena Rubenstein Prize, Perth, 1965 - The Helena Rubenstein Prize, Perth, 1965 - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize, 1968 - The Archibald Prize (portrait of Margo Lewers), 1971 - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize, 1973 - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize, 1994 - The Trustee Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1994 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, 1996 - The Nita Kibble Award for Literature, for. Try something you havent tried before, for Gods sake. From Judy Cassabs scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. The letters deadline forTheEchois noon Friday. A copy of the diary is held in the National Library of Australia in Canberra and excerpts were published in 1995 in a book, Judy Cassabs Diaries. 2022 Royal Australian Historical Society All Rights Reserved, Agricultural Shows in NSW: Competition, Community, Country, Researching Soldiers in Your Local Community, Finding Your Ancestors: Researching Aboriginal Family History in NSW, An Intimate Pandemic: The Community Impact of Influenza in 1919, Playing Their Part: Vice-Regal Consorts of NSW, Resources for Managing Historical Societies, https://www.portrait.gov.au/people/judy-cassab-1920, https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/cassab-judy/, https://www.smh.com.au/national/judy-cassab-holocaust-survivor-society-darling-and-acclaimed-portrait-artist-20151103-gkpd3s.html. Born Judit Kaszab in 1920 in Vienna to Hungarian parents, Cassab was raised by her mother and grandmother in Beregszsz, Hungary. They are a soft and loving conversation with the grandson she clearly adored. Entitled Dear Bodhi this exhibition provides a moving account of Cassabs connection to the northern rivers, gained primarily through her son, John Seed (Janos), and his family at Bodhi Farm. Niall, Brenda. The Gallery acknowledges the recent passing of Judy Cassab (15 August 1920 - 3 November 2015), one of Australia's much loved and respected artists and best known for being the first woman to twice win the prestigious Archibald portrait prize. Hilary L. Rubinstein And since the age of 12 she kept a diary about her life. Free Sign Up, Get The AJN Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories. Bibliographic information. After many years of hardship and loss, in 1951, already an accomplished painter, Judy, Jancsi and their two Budapest-born sons, were able to emigrate to Australia. Judy Cassab Diaries is a book of her diary entries from 1944 to 1993. [Image courtesy Art Gallery of NSW, OA5.1968.]. As a migrant and as a woman, Cassab overcame remarkable. But Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association say that the impact on residents and business is too high a cost to pay. PhD) from Sydney University. CASSAB, JUDY (1920- ), Australian painter. 162 QUEEN STREET WOOLLAHRA NSW AUSTRALIA T . Soon she was travelling alone overseas for six months at a time, painting Queen Sirikit in Thailand, Princess Alexandra in Buckingham Palace, the Maharaja of Jaipur in India. In 1967 she was the first woman to win the prize for a second time, for her portrait of Margo Lewers. Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995, 1909 - 1995. After surviving War War ii in Nazi-occupied Budapest by concealing her Jewish identity, in 1951 she immigrated to Sydney with her husband and children. She held her first solo exhibition in 1953, won back-to-back Womens Weekly Portrait Prizes in 1955 and 1956, and became the second woman to win the Archibald in 1960 with her portrait of Stanislaus Rapotec. From Judy Cassab's scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. (She also won several watercolour awards for landscape works in the Wynne Prize competition between 1973 and 2003.). In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. The family moved to Woollahra where Judy began painting in earnest. Peter Kampfner, Judy Cassab and Norman Seligman. Last night, Mrs Cassab attended a celebration at the Museum to mark the 60th anniversary of her first Australian exhibition. [1] Cassab worked in a factory under an assumed name and put her artistic skills to use after hours forging papers and passports. The Musee Picasso, 1994. Want this question answered? A two-time winner of the Archibald Prize, Judy Cassab was a portraitist of immense insight and imagination, seemingly able to capture not only a sitters likeness but the spirit of their times. She grew up in Beregszsz, a town with a large Hungarian population; now in Ukraine, and in Soviet Russia after the Second World War, it was at that time in Czechoslovakia. Judy removes her yellow star, and, using the identification papers of her old maid, adopts a new non-Jewish identity. I lost the first 11 years of my diaries when they were left in my childhood home in Beregszsz and perished during the war. Works for Sale (8) Auction Results. TWO years ago a major exhibition by Archibald Prize-winning artist Judy Cassab, aptly named Judy Cassab, A Celebration, was held at Eva Breuer Art Dealer in Sydney, and a few months later at Melbournes Mossgreen Gallery. Cassab, Judy. A Hungarian Jew, Cassab fled Europe after 10 years of oppression at the hands of both the fascist and communist regimes. In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. In the 1930s and 40s however, Cassabs attempts to visit Paris were frustrated by the Second World War and post-war austerity and travel restrictions. With John, everything is soul, nothing is material." Judy Cassab is known for Expressionist and abstract image painting, portrait specialty. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. Free entry, Find out what you need to know before visiting, portrait of fellow artist Stanislaus Rapotec, portfolio of lithographs of eminent Australian cultural figures. . The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail opened this morning making 24km of the former rail line open to the public. Like all businesses we are struggling to keep food on the table of all our local and hard working journalists, artists, sales, delivery and drudges who keep the news coming out to you both in the newspaper and online. The celebration included the opening of an intimate . His work is about beauty and aesthetics in nature. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the National Library of Australia. In 1969 Judy was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. Peter was a happier child; John was troubled and took longer to find his direction. She studied in Budapest and Prague . Here, David Leser reveals her amazing story. Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. She died in 2015. [Image courtesy National Library of Australia, nla.obj-140408422. She won the Archibald again in 1967 with her portrait of artist Margo Lewers. Flashes of BeautyOne of Cassabs great loves was music. When she was 12, Judy Cassab began two practices that would become lifelong rituals; she started painting and began to keep a diary. Why did Judy Cassab migrate to Australia for kids? Tributes have poured in for Cassab from members of the art world, famous people who sat for her paintings and community leaders. Judy died in Sydney in 2015, aged 95, fourteen years after the death of her husband. One of Australia's greatest portrait painters, Judy Cassab, AO, CBE, has died. Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Lee Jopling and Catherine Runcie, University of Sydney, 129-144. This interview later formed part of the James Gleeson Oral History Collection. She was a success and I was a failure. The existing 1944-1993 entries were published by Random House in 1995. It was Jancsi who, nonetheless, encouraged Judy, if the opportunity were to arise, to flee to Budapest to study painting. She established a fine reputation there as a portraitist and over a number of years took to spending a couple of months annually in London executing commissions, while her husband cheerfully remained in Sydney looking after the couples sons. John kept asking. Photograph by Jenni Carter. Sort: Judy Cassab. He, Greta Seed and their son Bodhi sought their own ideologies to live by, which were at times at odds with values of the mainstream and the older generation (which Judy was of course part of). In 1988 she also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). In Sydney Cassab quickly gained recognition for her landscape and portrait art. Even after Russian forces liberated the city and Judy was reunited with Jancsi, hunger and hardship persisted. My partner drove while I conducted reconnaissance for that elusive parking spot. Why did judy cassab come to Australia? I never knew that I could write. Judy Cassab (Australian, born 1920) Arid Vegetation. The drawing has been hanging in her room at Montefiore in recent years. Try abstract. He was so impressed with it and with photographs of portraits by Cassab that he arranged for her to depict Queen Elizabeth II's cousin Princess Alexandra, who was due to launch the company's new vessel the Oriana. Immersed in Sydneys art scene, she quickly became a social darling, a beloved mentor, confidant, judge and host. Born in Vienna in 1920 to Hungarian Jewish parents, she lived through the horrors of the Second World War. Judy Cassab was one of Australia's most respected female artists, renowned for her abilities as a portraitist. Vienna-born and Budapest trained painter Judy Cassab, with her baby son John in Budapest, 1945. Most of her family, including her mother, grandmother and uncle, as well as close members of her husbands family were deported to Auschwitz where they were killed. Today Judy Cassab would be 102 years old. Judy Cassab Looking Through 2, 114.5 x 148.5 cm . Now Bodhi has dreadlocks down to his waist and plays in a band. I was contemptuous of the values she represented - glittering gallery openings, glamorous clothes and cars, wealthy people into conspicuous consumption. Her diaries, published in 1995, won her the Nita B. Kibble Award for Women Writers in 1996. The story of Judy Cassab is marked by determination. Follow. In 1984 she compiled a portfolio of lithographs of eminent Australian cultural figures, including artists Donald Friend, Sidney Nolan and Lloyd Rees. Inherited from her parents, she recalls her mother singing Schubert to her as a child. They were offering their regrets that they could not attend the funeral.. I loved it when a reporter rang up once and asked Judy what her New Year's resolution had been. Vienna-born, Budapest-trained painter Judy Cassab, who survived the Holocaust with the help of her non-Jewish maid's identity papers, arrived in Australia in 1951 with her husband and their two small sons. Judy Cassab as this European migrant became upon arriving in Sydney in 1951 was one of Australias most acclaimed portraitists, and was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice. Which NSW election candidates support pork barrel grant reform? I lost everything else I had there. See more ideas about australian painters, painter, australian art. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. We're so close now. One can never recapture a 12-year-old self.'. You can browse the women featured on our webpage, Womens History Month. In a snapshot Between 1945 and 1965 two million immigrants arrived in Australia. This exhibition reveals a moment when those passions overlapped. Judy looked at me and replied: "I've decided to add more green to my palette. This goodness was mysterious, spontaneous and innocent. Despite very promising times through her art, the young Kaszab family decided to leave Europe to escape the troubling torments of the past and migrate to Australia, a far away land offering peace and security above all other considerations. [10], Cassab died on 3 November 2015 at the age of 95 in her nursing home in the Sydney suburb of Randwick.[5]. Diaries. She moves into a room advertised in the paper. 2017-07-25 02:23:58. There is a sense of intimacy, as though we have quietly entered the artists sanctuary. Australian/Harvard . 23 June 2021. Judy had put aside her painting to nurse Jancsi for his last decade; now she needed looking after. Why did Judy Cassab migrate to Australia for kids? Are you a RAHS Member or Affiliate? Vienna-born and Budapest-trained Australian painter Judy Cassab. She was 95 years old. Cassab was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents. Keeping the community together and the community voice loud and clear is what The Echo is about. What year did Judy Cassab migrate to Australia? Terrapin Puppet Theatres Red A round-up of the coming events in the Byron Shire and beyond. Judy Cassab's love for Australia's desert interior had a profound impact on her practice. Born Judit Kaszab on August 15, 1920, Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, the only child of middle-class Hungarian Jewish parents Imre and Ilona (Kont) Kaszab. Cassab quickly established herself as a portraitist of renown. CASSAB, JUDY (1920- ), Australian painter. Rather, in works like this, the spirit of her subject beams through. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Cassabs husband Jansci Kampfner was a survivor of the forced labour camps. In 1929 the Kaszab family returned to Hungary where her parents separated and Judy spent the rest of her childhood years living in her grandmother's house. More than ever we need your help to keep this voice alive and thriving in the community. Also included are passges from the artist's extensive diaries which provide an interesting insight into her life and work. Cassab once wrote; "My art is so intrinsically interwoven in the fabric of my being that I cannot conceive of any sort of existence without it. In 1967, when the Suez was closed, she spent five years detouring her way . I learned to appreciate his non-materialistic values, and see that his caring about the earth, the forests, climate change, is vitally useful. Art market auction sales from the 1970s to 2023 for 1,238 works by artist Judy Cassab (1920-2015), and values for over 18,000 other Australian and New Zealand artists. Judy Cassab. I've learned so much from John. Born Judith Kaszab in Vienna, she spent her childhood in Budapest, and studied there and in Prague. She began painting at twelve years old and began studying at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939. In 1964 and again in 1971 Cassab won the Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize; in 1965 she won the Helena Rubinstein Prize. To view the full Judy Cassab collection, click here. Watercolours from India. Between 1939 and 1949, Cassab studied art in Prague and at the Budapest Academy, but her studies were interrupted by the Nazi occupation. Cassab made her reputation as a portrait painter. Over the years, she painted a large number of distinguished Australians, male and female, from a variety of fields ranging from the stage to academia, as well as foreign dignitaries and rulers. She describes chaotic scenes of bombers reducing the buildings in her street to rubble and of the city going up in flames. The Judy Cassab website is a treasure trove of all sorts of links, but the one I urge you to see is the link to an 8 minute segment of the 7.30 Report about her 60th anniversary retrospective when she was 93. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. 112 Colour plates #0717 Judy Cassab is one of Australia's best known portrait painters and the winner of many prestigious art awards including the coveted Archibald Prize. She began her formal studies at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but these were cut short by the oncoming Second World War and she was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939. Much of what the exhibition contains has been part of the lives of the artist and her family, and not made with the public in mind. As the bombing intensified in 1945, Judy spent even longer periods in the cramped confines of her bunker. It is different with the diaries. Photograph by Jenni Carter. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab immigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. Sydney Morning Herald, April 22, 1953, 2. Four good reasons to indulge in cryptocurrency! I take half a Valium, go to bed and pray.". She had suffered dementia for 14 years before being diagnosed with cancer . It caught the eye of the company's director, Sir Colin Anderson, who also happened to be chairman of London's Tate Gallery. In 1967 she was the first woman to win the prize for a second time, an achievement she shares only with contemporary artist Del Kathryn Barton. After rejecting each other's values for three decades, mother and son now realise they're on similar paths. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. She survived the war using forged identity papers supplied by her maid. She was effervescent with people and quietly determined in her practice. Did Judy cassab come to Australia on a boat? 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