What was Judy Cassab life before migration? . "Judy Cassab, 1945." This goodness was mysterious, spontaneous and innocent. Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women. Subscribe to see sale result Figure in a Rocky Landscape . The artwork looked as if it had been painted by an artist with years of experience. She met her husband, Jancsi Kmpfner, in 1938 when she was 18 and he was 36. RAHS Member [8], On 3 March 1995 Cassab was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney. In 1939, only after making him promise that their marriage would not stand in the way of her being a painter, Judy married Jancsi Kampfner. [Image courtesy National Library of Australia, nla.obj-140408422. The first drawing renowned artist Judy Cassab ever committed to paper is currently hanging in the Sydney Jewish Museum. The family moved to Woollahra where Judy began painting in earnest. [4] Judys career took off soon after their arrival with her commissioned portrait of Sir Charles Lloyd Jones wife. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1991. Finally, they received permits to enter Australia and immigrated there in 1951. It is different with the diaries. In 1969 Judy was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. When I was awarded an OAM for services to conservation, no one could call me hippie scum any more. But I will be thinking of you, Peter and your family above all of Judy all that day.. Artist Judy Cassab, 89, came to Australia from post-war Hungary and went on to twice win the Archibald Prize. Scientists in Australia, National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT Australia, 1996, Pg.10; col. 1. Painting by Australian artist Judy Cassab of Australian landscape, 2000. What did Judy Cassab achieve in Australia? In 1964 and again in 1971 Cassab won the Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize; in 1965 she won the Helena Rubinstein Prize. Art & Collectors recognises the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation as the sovereign custodians of the land on which we operate. In 1969, as the only woman to have won the Archibald Prize twice and having collected another 10 major art prizes, Judy Cassab was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. I took her on a painting trip through India and she loved it. But she never played the victim, or hated. Colour has always been something which pops up here and there in spots and hues, something on which the painters glance focuses. In Sydney Cassab quickly gained recognition for her landscape and portrait art. AU $26.00 + AU $24.00 postage + AU $24.00 postage + AU $24.00 postage. Please try again later. It would be the first of many to the central desert over the next three decades. 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. Judiths adapting to life in Australia was initially a challenge in more ways then one. 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. One of Australias greatest portrait painters, Judy Cassab, AO, CBE, has died. Bibliographic information. We acknowledge the Gadigal of the Eora Nation, the traditional custodians of the Country on which the Art Gallery of NSW stands. 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. 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. In this collection of rare etchings published by Crown Press Studios, an often unseen side of the artist emerges. Judy passed away in her Sydney home in the early hours of Tuesday morning with her sons by her side. In 1980 she became only the second female trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW trustee. T. Tributes are flowing for one of Australia's most acclaimed portrait painters, Judy Cassab, who has died at the age of 95. 390 askART artist summary of Judy Cassab. Lee Jopling and Catherine Runcie, University of Sydney, 129-144. I wrote in my diary: "Roughly my thoughts are: it's better than having a heroin addict. The Musee Picasso, 1994. I wanted nothing to do with Judy's fame and fortune; I was embarrassed by her, uncomfortable. Meet the Ballina electorate candidates! We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our Australian campuses stand. Judy Cassab (1920 - 2015) was active/lived in Australia, Austria. She is known for A Club with Three Members (1980) and A Life (1992). Judy's sons, John and Peter help carry her portrait of Rapotec, her entry in the 1959 Archibald Prize. 17.6.11 JUDY HONOURED BY HUNGARIAN GOVERNMENT WITH A "GOLD CROSS OF MERIT" MEDAL. As an adult, Cassab also sung while playing the piano and in her studio, she painted to an orchestral soundtrack. To view the full Judy Cassab collection, click here. Judy Cassab, 1945 Vienna-born and Budapest trained painter Judy Cassab, with her baby son John in Budapest, 1945. 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 was a Francophile. Now Bodhi has dreadlocks down to his waist and plays in a band. I loved it when a reporter rang up once and asked Judy what her New Year's resolution had been. Thank you. I wanted a simpler lifestyle. Moments, both mundane and meaningful are distilled with unfailing care and attentiveness. The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 762 times, mostly in the Painting category. It includes artworks from the familys collection, illustrated letters, and unpublished passages from her diaries. A widow from 2001, and suffering age-related dementia for fourteen years, Cassab died of cancer on November 3, 2015. JUDY CASSAB 1920-2015. Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. Unfortunately I will be in Seoul, Korea, in connection with my duties for the United Nations on North Korea, he wrote in an email to Seed. See opening hours Author: Brenda Niall Title: Judy Cassab, A Portrait Among Australias most renowned artists, they chart the moments of friendship, fantasy and feeling that comprised the extraordinary Judy Cassab. In 1951 the Cassabs (Kaszab) arrived in Australia. Skip to Main Content Toggle navigation. Judy Cassab was born in 1920 in Vienna of Hungarian parents. 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. Klepac, Lou. 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. 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. 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. art when she was 12 years old as well as starting to keep a diary. Judy Cassab Europe, Australia, 1920-2015. 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. Interview with Judy Cassab, in Lee Jobling and Catherine Runcie, Matters of the Mind: Poems, Essays and Interviews in Honour of Leonie Kramer, Sydney: University of Sydney: 2001), 129-144. Judy Cassab: Portraits of Artists and Friends. Judy Cassab was born Judy Kaszab in Vienna, Austria, in 1920, to Hungarian parents. Have an update or correction? As years went by, I made a real effort to understand his values. Jancsi looked after us, but I was always a messed-up, unhappy, angry kid. Judy had put aside her painting to nurse Jancsi for his last decade; now she needed looking after. If neither, please select friend. NORPA atLismore City Hall | Friday 31 August, 6pm | Saturday 1 Sept, 11am | $1538 In 1969 Judy was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts. Already a talented artist, Judy attended the Academy of Art in Prague at Jancsis urging, who wanted her to pursue her career before committing to marriage. 2017-07-25 02:23:58. Untitled Document. Between 1939 and 1949, Cassab studied art in Prague and at the Budapest Academy, but her studies were interrupted by the Nazi occupation. It was only in 1951, while displaced in Austria that she could finally explore the love of love. Byron Theatre, March 15, Coalition promises $180m for Lismore hospital, Local indigenous icon, Digby Moran, exhibits in Lismore, Byron Shire Mayor, staff mute over Council court loss, Local concert series organiser hit with $5,000 fine. 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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. Judy is the one who had a shocking early life, living through the Nazis and World War II, experiencing horrendous events and the death of all her family. . They migrated to Australia in 1951 with their two young sons, Janos (who later change his name to John Seed) and Peter. 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. The Greens, Labor, Independent or The Nationals: who will win your vote for the state seat of Ballina next month? Cassab was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice: She held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as others in Paris and London. Judy CASSAB is an artist born in Austria in 1920 and deceased in 2015. Rubinstein, Hilary L.. "Judy Cassab." The couple moved to Sydney with their two sons in 1951, settling in Woollahra. But Kingscliff Ratepayers and Progress Association say that the impact on residents and business is too high a cost to pay. Writing, I thought, is just a habit like washing my teeth; I could not go to bed without doing it. Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. 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). The Patris made a total of 91 voyages to Australia between 1959 and 1975, travelling regularly via Egypt's Suez Canal. 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. You can browse the women featured on our webpage, Womens History Month. Judy removes her yellow star, and, using the identification papers of her old maid, adopts a new non-Jewish identity. For Cassab, adapting to life in Australia was a challenge made easier by her extraordinary talent as an artist. 25 Followers. It gave her a lot of pleasure.. Her family and countless friends and loved ones perished in the . [1], Cassab, her husband and two sons emigrated to Australia in 1951 and settled in Sydney. Terrapin Puppet Theatres Red A round-up of the coming events in the Byron Shire and beyond. The forms Cassab encountered in the landscape inspired her to escape from the strictures of being a purely figurative artist. Cassab quickly established herself as a portraitist of renown. Information for Indigenous Australians, Monash University: 00008CMonash College: 01857J, Chief Marketing OfficerUniversity Marketing, Admissions and Communications, Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation Almost daily I read from her diary to her. Another sum of $A500 would be awarded to the best such portrait by a woman artist; if a woman won first prize, she would pocket this prize too. Among the new immigrants were the first non-British migrants allowed by the Australian Government. Cutler family - papers, 1909-1995, 1909 - 1995. 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. Judy and Jancsi emigrated to Australia in 1951 with their two sons, Janos (John) and Peter. I do not feel anxious about my paintings. She knew, as only great portraitists do, that the genre required more than likeness. When John went to live on the commune, I was so worried, but Peter told me: "John is the happiest he's ever been. In 1988 she was also appointed as an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). Judy Cassab : diaries Random House Milsons Point, N.S.W 1996. Wiki User. Title: Judy Cassab: An Australian Story . In this collection of rare etchings published by Crown Press Studios, an often unseen side of the artist emerges. She graduated from school there in 1938. Born Judith Kaszab in Vienna, she spent her childhood in Budapest, and studied there and in Prague. Peter Kampfner, Judy Cassab and Norman Seligman. Records of the Rudy Komon Art Gallery, 1959-1984 [manuscript], 1959 - 1984. Judy Cassab died in November 2015, leaving behind a significant body of work, exhibited both in Australia and internationally. Cassabwas both a skilled and talented portraitist, and an artist who grabbled with the challenges of modernism and subsequent aims to find her own artistic vision. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. ), 'Portrait of a Life: JUDY CASSAB (1920)', The Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, 'Judy Cassab: selected solo shows', in. Born Judit Kaszab in 1920 in Vienna to Hungarian parents, Cassab was raised by her mother and grandmother in Beregszsz, Hungary. Later, John became a hippie and wrote to me from India that he'd renounced all personal desire, shaved his head and become a monk. Terrapin Puppet Theatre presentRed Racing Hood Let us know. [Image courtesy Art Gallery of NSW, OA5.1968.]. I have never experienced this. 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. History; Artists; Catalogue; 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. The extraordinary story of a woman who overcame living in the shadow of the holocaust to become one of Australia's most celebrated artists, told by Australia's most awarded biographer.Judy Cassab conquered the Australian art world at a time when women artists were struggling for serious attention. This exhibition reveals a moment when those passions overlapped. [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. She died on November 3, 2015 in Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. I made one condition - that we stay in first-class hotels, not the backpackers' lodges he prefers. Her subjects included members of the British Royal Family and prominent Australians, including politicians, artists, musicians, fashion designers and academics. 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 Create Alert. Volume Two: 1945 to the Present. She was a success and I was a failure. Even after Russian forces liberated the city and Judy was reunited with Jancsi, hunger and hardship persisted. Reunion, 2001. What age did Judy Cassab migrate to Australia? 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. In Sydney Cassab quickly gained recognition for her landscape and portrait art. Due to major building activity, some collections are unavailable. Baer, Daniel (ed. I take half a Valium, go to bed and pray.". The space between viewer and subject ripples as Cassab looks back at us, reflected in a mirror. Judy Cassab: Yes, it did. It was unconstructed, uncontrived, unstudied, innate, never absent.. From Judy Cassab's scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. Human and animal carcasses lay on the street, while lulls in the bombing were accompanied by looters raiding shops. She began painting at twelve years old and began studying at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague in 1938, but was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939. She was married to Jancsi Kampfner. Cassab, Judy. Its hard to find a Jewish house in (Sydneys) eastern suburbs without a portrait by her, says Seed. One of Australia's greatest portrait painters, Judy Cassab, AO, CBE, has died. Judy Cassab was born in 1920 in Vienna to Hungarian parents. Judy Cassab is one of Australia's most renowned portrait painters, having won numerous prestigious art awards including the Archibald Prize. Having written a dairy since the age of twelve, Judys entries from before April 1944 were lost during the war. Are you a RAHS Member or Affiliate? John kept asking. When she was 12, Judy Cassab began two practices that would become lifelong rituals; she started painting and began to keep a diary. Judy Cassab is one of Australia's best known portrait painters and the winner of many prestigious art awards, including the coveted Archibald Prize. Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. When I painted Sir Warwick Fairfax for the 1954 Archibald Prize, he drove us to his grand house to give the boys a puppy as a present. After the wars end, Judy became heavily involved in the art industry and began exhibiting her paintings. Judy Cassab was born on August 15, 1920 in Vienna, Austria. Art & Collectors. Vienna, Austria Judy Cassab/Place of birth. 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. August 15, 1920, Vienna, Austria Sydney Morning Herald, April 22, 1953, 2. It helped her sitters to settle and her mind to focus. A Hungarian Jew, Cassab fled Europe after 10 years of oppression at the hands of both the fascist and communist regimes. Seed, an environmental campaigner and sculptor, said: I moved back to Sydney in 2008 after an absence of 40 years, so as to be closer to Judy in her decline. A collaboration between The University of Melbourne and The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW), Judy Cassab, 1993, by Weight, GregDetails. 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. Time for drug law reform in NSW as state election looms? Sydney: Beagle Press, 1998. Among Australias most renowned artists, they chart the moments of friendship, fantasy and feeling that comprised the extraordinary Judy Cassab. In 1951 the Cassab's (Kaszab) arrived in Australia. She studied in Budapest and Prague . No-one could fail to notice it. In 1967, when the Suez was closed, she spent five years detouring her way . She died in Sydney in 2015, aged 95. Judy travelled to Budapest for further study and, when the war caught up with her, assumed the identity of her Catholic maid Mria Koperdk. Filter. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it. Judy Cassab won the Kibble Award for 'Judy Cassab: Diaries' in 1996, Created: 12 August 2002, Last modified: 15 October 2018, Copyright in The Australian Women's Register is owned by the Australian Women's Archives Program and vested in each of the authors in respect of their contributions from 2000, http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/IMP0077b.htm, The Australian Women's Register is published quarterly by the Australian Women's Archives Program She resumed her studies in Budapest in 1941 with Aurel Bernath and Lipot Hermann the same year her husband Jancsi Kampfner was conscripted to work in labour camps (she had married him in 1939 on the condition that she be allowed to pursue a career as an artist). Having lived in Hungary under first German and then Soviet rule, Cassab and Kaempfer escaped in 1949 to Vienna but soon decided to leave Central Europe altogether. Their Australian life began in a Bondi boarding house with other Hungarian migrants some of whom were Jewish, others Nazis. The University of Sydney awarded her an honorary Doctor of Letters in 1995, and in 2011 Hungary awarded her its Gold Cross of Merit. She was appointed as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her service to the visual arts in 1969, and an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in 1988. It is the Universitys expectation that only those who are well and not presenting with COVID-19 symptoms attend a Monash campus or location. I scraped through school, then did a BA in psychology and philosophy at Sydney Uni, then started sculpture. Seed said: Someone checked the card to see who it was from and it read, Malcolm and Lucy Turnbull. She died in 2015. Canberra Times, June 4, 1960, 13; January 28, 1961; January 20, 1968, 1; June10, 1964, 20; October 13, 1083, 21; May 5, 1084, 17; July 15, 1994, 12; November 12, 1995, 19. 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. If you enjoyed reading this, please feel free to share it. With John, everything is soul, nothing is material." Help JWA continue to lift up Jewish womens stories, this month and every month, by. Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 - 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter. 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. 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. [1], German occupation in 1939 cut Judys studies short. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); The Echo is made possible by the support of all of our advertisers. At the time . RAHS Friend. Judy Cassab, Self: A Club with Three Members. 162 QUEEN STREET WOOLLAHRA NSW AUSTRALIA T . I never knew that I could write. Mayor Richardson said the four works feature iconic Byron locations and will have a meaningful connection for many locals and visitors. Judy Cassab/Place of birth There, she studied under the eminent Aurl Bernth. Kingscliff property developer Gales Holgins is seeking to increase truck movements by bringing in fill from the M1 road works rather than using fill from the development site. 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. Her husband spent time in internment camps while she hid in Austria. This exhibition presents a more private side of Cassabs life than that of previous public exhibitions and commissioned portraits of leaders and luminaries. One can never recapture a 12-year-old self.'. There was not a mean bone in her body and she was the only one I have ever known for whom everyone who knew her felt at least affection and friendliness. The celebration included the opening of an intimate . 16.11.13 A CELEBRATION OF JUDY'S LIFE TO BE LAUNCHED BY NSW GOVERNOR MARIE BASHIR. Now we're having a joint exhibition at Eva Breuer Gallery in Woollahra, which Michael Kirby will open on September 30 [Wednesday]. The Independent Planning Commission (IPC) held its public hearings last week over two days, with commissioners hearing from organisations and residents on the negative and positive impacts from holiday letting. The reader is left with only a brief sketch of the chaos of German occupied Hungary, followed by an extensive record of the rise and rise of Cassabs artistic career. T. Her and her husband wandered between cities across Europe in search of a new home. 8 Artworks: Judy Cassab. Vienna, Austria We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. 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. Judy Cassab/Born. Cassab was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents. By this time Judy was duplicating documents and smuggling medicine for the underground resistance movement. 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. After Jancsi died, John took me to India. The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail opened this morning making 24km of the former rail line open to the public. Last updated Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. In Australia, she quickly gained a reputation for her distinctive expressionist technique and portrait abilities. Why did Judy Cassab migrate to Australia for kids? They were offering their regrets that they could not attend the funeral.. Jancsi was released after two years. 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. Or an alcoholic. With me, everything is material, I never searched for my soul. Image: The Lighthouse #ByronBay (1999) by Judy Cassab https://artsnorthernrivers.com.au/blog/portraits-of-byron-bay R pp. 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. 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