Judy Cassab

Judy Cassab AO CBE
From Cassab's scrapbook deposited in the National Library of Australia: With her baby son John in Budapest in 1945 Judy Cassab was happy to be reunited with her husband as the Germans were driven out
Born	Judit Kaszab 15 August 1920 Vienna, Austria
Died	3 November 2015 (aged 95) Randwick, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Artist
Spouse(s)	János Kampfler

Judit Kaszab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), better known as Judy Cassab, was an Australian painter. She twice won the Archibald Prize.

Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, Austria in 1920 to Hungarian parents. Her husband was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944. She moved to Australia in 1950 and settled in Sydney.

Cassab was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice:

• 1960 for a portrait of Stan Rapotec
• 1967 for a portrait of Margo Lewers.

She held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as others in Paris and London. Cassab died on 3 November 2015 at the age of 95 in her nursing home in the Sydney suburb of Randwick.^[1]

Honours

On 14 June 1969 she was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in "recognition of service to the visual arts".^[2]

On 26 January 1988, she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia again in "recognition of service to the visual arts".^[3]

On 3 March 1995, she was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney.^[4]

References

1. Sydney Morning Herald, "Two time Archibald Prize winner and Holocaust surviver Judy Cassab dies". Retrieved 3 November 2015
2. "Judy Cassab CBE". Australian Honours Database. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
3. "Judy Cassab AO". Australian Honours Database. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
4. "Citation for Honorary Doctorate – University of Sydney".

External links

• http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0077b.htm
• http://www.judycassab.com
• Judy Cassab a self portrait