I wrote in my diary: "Roughly my thoughts are: it's better than having a heroin addict. His work is about beauty and aesthetics in nature. The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 762 times, mostly in the Painting category. Judy Cassab was born Judit Kaszab in Vienna, Austria, in 1920, to Hungarian parents. See opening hours Her sitters including prominent Britons and other notables abroad. Thank you. Byron Echo Print Archive (previous volume). It would be the first of many to the central desert over the next three decades. Print Full Image Rights Public Domain Date / time 1945 How to cite this page Jewish Women's Archive. John Seed and Judy CassabCredit:Diana Streak. In this collection of rare etchings published by Crown Press Studios, an often unseen side of the artist emerges. Hebrew Standard of Australasia, May 4, 1953, 4. Overall, Cassab exhibited 41 works in the competition between 1952 and 1998. It was unconstructed, uncontrived, unstudied, innate, never absent.. Vienna-born and Budapest-trained Australian painter Judy Cassab. Judith's adapting to life in Australia was initially a challenge in more ways then one. 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. Are you a RAHS Member or Affiliate? 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. Cassab also had several other commissions to fulfill in London as a result of the 1959 exhibition. Now we're having a joint exhibition at Eva Breuer Gallery in Woollahra, which Michael Kirby will open on September 30 [Wednesday]. Why did judy cassab come to Australia? 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. Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents, Cassab started painting at the age of 12. Try something you havent tried before, for Gods sake. Living separately for fear of discovery, the couple managed to survive the Nazi occupation, Cassab assuming the identity of her former maid, a non-Jew who insisted on this step. 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. Jancsi was sent to a forced labour camp in Russia in 1941, and, again at his urging, for he would always be supportive of her artistic ambitions, she went to art school in Budapest. Papers of Judy Cassab, 1944-2006 [manuscript], 1944 - 2006. 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. After the wars end, Judy became heavily involved in the art industry and began exhibiting her paintings. 8 Artworks: Judy Cassab. Following the publication of her diaries in 1995, Sydney University conferred upon her the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters (Hon. 17.6.11 JUDY HONOURED BY HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT WITH A "GOLD CROSS OF MERIT" MEDAL. The oldest auction recorded on our site is Composition sold in 1988 at Sotheby's (Painting) and the most recent is Portrait of Andrena sold in 2023 (Painting). 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. Photograph by Jenni Carter. Between 1939 and 1949 she studied art in Prague and the Budapest Academy and although her studies were interrupted by Nazi occupation, she managed to survive by going underground and hiding her Jewish identity. Have an update or correction? 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. It was Jancsi who, nonetheless, encouraged Judy, if the opportunity were to arise, to flee to Budapest to study painting. Australian/Harvard . In 1929 the Kaszab family returned to Hungary where her parents separated and Judy spent the rest of her childhood years living in her grandmothers house. It was her last major exhibition the 95-year-old artist died on November 3 after spending her final years in the Montefiore nursing home in Randwick. [2], Her husband, Jancsi Kampfner, was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944. . 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 family's Catholic maid. The extremes of this life - pillared by joy, loss, motherhood, fame and friendship - are stitched together through her art. She was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1991. 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. She describes chaotic scenes of bombers reducing the buildings in her street to rubble and of the city going up in flames. Cassab has also worked as a muralist providing a mural for the Rex, Potts Point, Sydney in 1953. painter, was born Judit Kaszab in Vienna, Austria, on 15 August 1920, to Hungarian parents Imre Kaszab and Ilona, ne Kont. Originally named Judit Kaszab, she had only arrived in Australia in 1951 but soon adapted to her new home, changing her name to Judy Cassab, establishing herself as an innovative portraitist. Cassabs aesthetic sensitivity extended music to places. In 1951 the Cassab's (Kaszab) arrived in Australia. Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. She moved to Austr. Peter was a happier child; John was troubled and took longer to find his direction. The lawyer was a friend. Webmaster Team Let us know. 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. Yesterday a quiet driveway off flood-prone Ross Lane in Lennox Head was the scene of an unusual moment of pre-election fervour, when political representatives and candidates from across the region and every level of government came together to announce that something was finally being done about Ross Lane, along with numerous other roads across 26 disaster-declared LGAs. Filter. Create Alert. She was a trustee of the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1980 to 1988. and the Queensland and Victorian Premiers' awards for The Boyds. The existing 1944-1993 entries were published by Random House in 1995. Even after Russian forces liberated the city and Judy was reunited with Jancsi, hunger and hardship persisted. She died in 2015. From Judy Cassabs scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab immigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. Judiths adapting to life in Australia was initially a challenge in more ways then one. Rather, in works like this, the spirit of her subject beams through. Having written a dairy since the age of twelve, Judys entries from before April 1944 were lost during the war. He seemed to have no ambition, no money, he was meditating to save the world through peace and love. Which NSW election candidates support pork barrel grant reform? Jewish Women's Archive. The letters to Bodhi show another side of Cassab. Judy Cassab Europe, Australia, 1920-2015. [5], Portrait of Margo Lewers, 1967. 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. As Judy survived other, earlier tyrants, I think she would expect me to remain at my post on this occasion. There, she studied under the eminent Aurl Bernth. Janet Hawley Automobiles, Boats & Airplanes (1045) Dolls, Bears & Toys (11184) Estate & Storage; Guns & Firearms (2680) Real Estate (2) Her parents were Hungarian/Jewish. Her work is poignant, elegant and instinctual, cut by an awareness that beauty is as precarious as it precious. To celebrate Womens History Month in 2021, the Royal Australian Historical Society will continue our work from previous years to highlight Australian women that have contributed to our history in various and meaningful ways. One of Australias greatest portrait painters, Judy Cassab, AO, CBE, has died. Rubinstein, Hilary L.. "Judy Cassab." Judy Cassab Looking Through 2, 114.5 x 148.5 cm . Judy and Jancsi emigrated to Australia in 1951 with their two sons, Janos (John) and Peter. New beginnings for Anaiya after the flames, IPC hears of holiday letting pros and cons, Politicians of all stripes descend on Ross Lane for big announcement. The story of Judy Cassab is marked by determination. Among Australias most renowned artists, they chart the moments of friendship, fantasy and feeling that comprised the extraordinary Judy Cassab. Cassab demonstrated her artistic talent at an early age her mother bought her a set of crayons for her 12th birthday and she drew a drawing of her grandmother. They are a soft and loving conversation with the grandson she clearly adored. I don't know why I was so angry and messed up as a kid. 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. Born Judit Kaszab into a Hungarian Jewish intellectual family in 1920, she came to Australia as a refugee in 1951 with her husband and two infant sons. de Berg, Hazel (1962), 'Oral History Tape', National Library of Australia. As the wars end drew nearer, bombing raids increased and Judy spent more time in bomb shelters. August 15, 1920, Vienna, Austria Art & Collectors. It was the brainchild of Cassabs son, John Seed, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of her first exhibition at Macquarie Galleries in Sydney in 1953, and featured more than 100 paintings. Judy Cassab, 1945 Vienna-born and Budapest trained painter Judy Cassab, with her baby son John in Budapest, 1945. Moments, both mundane and meaningful are distilled with unfailing care and attentiveness. From Judy Cassab's scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. He did everything possible to help Judy's passion for art. Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. She was a Francophile. Deceased (19202015) Also included are passges from the artist's extensive diaries which provide an interesting insight into her life and work. Our lives might have once seemed different, but I came to see that we've both travelled similar journeys. She studied in Prague and the Budapest Academy. Cassab made her reputation as a portrait painter. A Hungarian Jew, Cassab fled Europe after 10 years of oppression at the hands of both the fascist and communist regimes. Almost daily I read from her diary to her. She was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Hungarian parents. In 1980 she became only the second female trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW trustee. The Australian Government had decided to open up the nation because it believed there was an urgent need to 'populate or perish' after the Second World War. RAHS Member The celebration included the opening of an intimate . The first ten pages describe Judys survival in Nazi occupied Budapest, while the remainder of the book (500 pages) tells of her new life in Australia and her development into one of Australias most successful female artists. Judy Cassab has held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as others in Paris and London. Her and her husband wandered between cities across Europe in search of a new home. In a snapshot Between 1945 and 1965 two million immigrants arrived in Australia. Why did Judith Cassab break from the art world? Free Sign Up, Get The AJN Newsletter by email and never miss our top stories. Terrapin Puppet Theatres Red A round-up of the coming events in the Byron Shire and beyond. In 1969 Judy was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. Help JWA continue to lift up Jewish womens stories, this month and every month, by. In 1969 she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in recognition of service to the visual arts, followed by being named an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1988. [4] Judy's career took off soon after their arrival with her commissioned portrait of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones' wife. US$215-US$258. Judy Cassab was born in 1920 in Vienna to Hungarian parents. In 1955, the Australian Women's Weekly introduced an art prize, at the time the most lucrative ever offered in the country. 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. Try abstract. She won the prestigious Archibald Prize for portraiture in 1961 and 1968. Judy CASSAB is an artist born in Austria in 1920 and deceased in 2015. In her new homeland she became one of Australias most successful female artists, painting portraits of royalty and twice winning the Archibald prize, in 1961 and 1968. 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. Australian Portraits: ten official lithographs, Sydney: Beagle Press: 1984. Why did the Kaszab family move to Australia? Judy passed away in her Sydney home in the early hours of Tuesday morning with her sons by her side. This exhibition reveals a moment when those passions overlapped. See more ideas about judy, australian painters, painting. Her parents soon separated and Judith went with her mother back to Hungary to live with her grandmother. 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. The drawing has been hanging in her room at Montefiore in recent years. JUDY CASSAB 1920-2015. John reluctantly made the sacrifice! Her husband was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944. He's a beautiful boy; I love going to his concerts, and painting him. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. 1951 In 1996 she also won the Nita B. Kibble Award for women writers. Title: Judy Cassab: An Australian Story . Vienna, Austria Judy Cassab/Place of birth. Jancsi looked after us, but I was always a messed-up, unhappy, angry kid. Born Judit Kaszab into a Hungarian Jewish intellectual family in 1920, she came to . Art & Collectors. The space between viewer and subject ripples as Cassab looks back at us, reflected in a mirror. 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. Judy Cassab has survived Nazi persecution, poverty and enjoyed a great, enduring love. 16.11.13 A CELEBRATION OF JUDY'S LIFE TO BE LAUNCHED BY NSW GOVERNOR MARIE BASHIR. 25 Followers. 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. In 1961 Cassab became the second Australian woman (the first was in 1938) to win the Archibald Prize, for her portrait of fellow painter Stanislaus Rapotec, a portrait more modernistic in style than previous winners. First published in Good Weekend on September 26, 2009. She was the second female trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW in 1980, received an honorary doctorate from the University of Sydney, and earned Hungarys Gold Cross of Merit in 2011. 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 . At the time Seed said: These kind of exhibitions are usually held after someone dies, but I thought it would be great if she could enjoy the celebrations while she is alive.. She was the second woman to win the Archibald Prize, Australia's most prestigious award for portraiture, and forged an international reputation. Cassab migrated to Australia at a time when few women artists were given serious attention. In 1988 she was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). 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. The significant role played by bitcoin for businesses! I have never experienced this. In 1967 she was the first woman to win the prize for a second time, for her portrait of Margo Lewers. Apr 18, 2016 - Explore Pauline Morris's board "Judy Cassab" on Pinterest. Photograph by Jenni Carter. I was very happy that we did the exhibition, he told The AJN. In 1951, they arrived in Australia with 21 of her paintings, which were expressionist in style and concept rooted in her well developed Hungarian experience. We're so close now. Cassab, who that year also won the Pring Prize from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, took the $500 prize with her portrait of fashion model Judy Barraclough; she won again in 1956 with her portrait of artist Elaine Haxton. Later on in life she got married to her future husband who had to go fight in World War 2 and was then forced to be in a labor camp by the Nazis. He was 97 when he died in 2001, Judy was almost 80. Judy Cassab was born on August 15, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. 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. Scientists in Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, 1996, Pg.10; col. 1. This was Judys second winning Archibald entry. From Judy Cassabs scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. Judy Cassab/Place of birth Judy Cassab in her Studio, c. 1955 BACK COVER. INGVAR KENNE. 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. My eyes burn from the vivid colours of the day. 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. T. I wanted a simpler lifestyle. She died on November 3, 2015 in Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Tax included and shipping calculated at checkout. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Knowing our history, Written by Elizabeth Heffernan, RAHS Intern. By this time Judy was duplicating documents and smuggling medicine for the underground resistance movement. Skip to Main Content Toggle navigation. Subscribe to see sale result Two Figures Tanah-Lot, Bali 1975 Oil on composition board, signed and dated lower right: Cassab 75, 37 x 52.5 cm . Judy recalls that during one of her crying fits about a proposed overseas trip, Jancsi who was staying behind with the children, finally exclaimed 'we are only half of your life. When did Judith Cassab first come to Australia? Her hands are good, her eyes are good, her line is confident, but she's concerned about her memory failing, and hates her body growing old. But I will be thinking of you, Peter and your family above all of Judy all that day.. Byron Mayor, Simon Richardson (Greens), is again remaining mute over questions around Councils court loss, this time over a fencing dispute in Suffolk Park. Former High Court judge Michael Kirby, who has had his portrait painted by Cassab and became a close friend, was also unable to attend the funeral and sent his condolences. 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. ", Sir Warwick replied, "No, it's my house.". Fearing what would happen if her journal was found, Judy began writing on toilet paper and stopped recording dates. They were offering their regrets that they could not attend the funeral.. Search the catalogue for collection items held by the National Library of Australia. After Jancsi was taken away, Judy went to study Art in Budapest. 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