Jancsi not only kept the promise throughout their long marriage but was sometimes the one who had to creatively enforce it when Judy herself was willing to put her travelling aspirations aside if it meant being able to stay with her husband and young children. Austrian-born and of Hungarian parents, Judy Cassab emigrated to Australia in 1951 with her husband and two children. 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. Sydney: Beagle Press, 1998. One can never recapture a 12-year-old self.'. Finally, they received permits to enter Australia and immigrated there in 1951. Art & Collectors. Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. Courtesy of John Seed and Peter Kampfner. She was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice. Why did Judy cassab migrate to Australia for kids? 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. The extremes of this life - pillared by joy, loss, motherhood, fame and friendship - are stitched together through her art. 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. Byron Shire has been gifted four artworks by renowned Australian artist Judy Cassab. I scraped through school, then did a BA in psychology and philosophy at Sydney Uni, then started sculpture. From Judy Cassab's scrapbooks and photograph albums, 1951-1997, at the National Library of Australia. [Image courtesy National Library of Australia, nla.obj-140408422. 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 Judith's adapting to life in Australia was initially a challenge in more ways then one. NORPA atLismore City Hall | Friday 31 August, 6pm | Saturday 1 Sept, 11am | $1538 Cassab, who, it transpired, had once socially met his father, a chemist who had perished at Auschwitz, had been put in touch with him by an Australian influential in the art world, a former art critic of the Sydney Sun who now co-owned the prestigious Redfern Gallery in London. Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents, Cassab started painting at the age of 12. The lawyer was a friend. Help us elevate the voices of Jewish women. 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. Terrapin Puppet Theatres Red A round-up of the coming events in the Byron Shire and beyond. 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. 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. In Studio Self-Portrait, we glimpse what made Cassabs portraits so admired. 1920. In 1955, the Australian Women's Weekly introduced an art prize, at the time the most lucrative ever offered in the country. Lismore Showgrounds | Thursday til9 September | 7pm She was married to Jancsi Kampfner. 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. [1] Cassab worked in a factory under an assumed name and put her artistic skills to use after hours forging papers and passports. She became a commander of the British Empire in 1969, and officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. 1920 - 2015 Judy Cassab AO CBE (1920-2015) was one of Australia's best-loved, most successful and prolific portrait painters. Photograph by Jenni Carter. 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. Create Alert. Judy was welcoming my father, Jancsi, back from a forced-labour camp in Russia. She was effervescent with people and quietly determined in her practice. 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. Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents, Cassab started painting at the age of 12. Tax included and shipping calculated at checkout. She was a refugee washed ashore after the murder of most of her family and community. Judy CASSAB / Professor Sir John Philip Baxter CMG, BSc, PhD, FAA; Item - Professor Sir John Philip Baxter CMG, BSc, PhD, FAA. 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. The publication of letters is at the discretion of the letterseditor. Print Full Image Rights Public Domain Date / time 1945 How to cite this page Jewish Women's Archive. She studied in Budapest and Prague . Cassab quickly established herself as a portraitist of renown. 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. 16.11.13 A CELEBRATION OF JUDY'S LIFE TO BE LAUNCHED BY NSW GOVERNOR MARIE BASHIR. The Art Gallery of NSW acquired both these works and later her portrait of Hal Missingham, then director of the Gallery, which was a finalist in the 1970 prize. 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. Judy still paints every day, portraits or landscapes, and writes her daily diary. She was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Hungarian parents. The artwork looked as if it had been painted by an artist with years of experience. ", Sir Warwick replied, "No, it's my house.". If you can spare a few dollars a week or maybe more we would appreciate all the support you are able to give to keep the voice of independent, local journalism alive. My eyes burn from the vivid colours of the day. 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. 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. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents. Have an update or correction? When my son, Bodhi, was born in 1977, Judy began to visit and the whole family started getting closer. Or an alcoholic. Judy exhibited forty paintings in the Archibald throughout her career. 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. These all-consuming priorities were sometimes conflicting, which tore at her at times. 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. 23 June 2021. 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). Detail of Ormiston 1959, painted in her Sydney studio from an oil study made on site, is one of her earliest paintings of central Australia and a radical departure from the familiar human figures of her earlier works. A Hungarian Jew, Cassab fled Europe after 10 years of oppression at the hands of both the fascist and communist regimes. Born in Vienna, she was raised by her grandparents in Hungary where she began studying painting. There, she studied under the eminent Aurl Bernth. 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. Cassab migrated to Australia at a time when few women artists were given serious attention. They were offering their regrets that they could not attend the funeral.. Her parents were Hungarian/Jewish. Title: Judy Cassab: An Australian Story . In Sydney Cassab quickly gained recognition for her landscape and portrait art. Judy travelled to Budapest for further study and, when the war caught up with her, assumed the identity of her Catholic maid Mria Koperdk. As an adult, Cassab also sung while playing the piano and in her studio, she painted to an orchestral soundtrack. 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. It was a fatal error driving half a kilometre into Mullumbimby to pick up a carton of milk. We're so close now. In Judy Cassab Diaries, the artist tells the . 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). 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. Number of Works: 1,238, . 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. She is known for A Club with Three Members (1980) and A Life (1992). She graduated from school there in 1938. That portrait was undertaken at Buckingham Palace in 1960. . . John asked, "Is this a hotel? T. Works for Sale (8) Auction Results. Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 - 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter. Judy Cassab was born Judy Kaszab in Vienna, Austria, in 1920, to Hungarian parents. They migrated to Australia in 1951 with their two young sons, Janos (who later change his name to John Seed) and Peter. While in her teens Cassab fell in love with Jancsi Kaempfner, a Jewish chemical engineer and brewery manager twice her age. The artist's works have gone up for sale at public auction 762 times, mostly in the Painting category. Cassab was made a commander of the British Empire in 1969, then an officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. Her parents soon separated and Judith went with her mother back to Hungary to live with her grandmother. Judy Cassab interviewed by Hazel de Berg in the Hazel de Berg collection [sound recording], 1962. 162 QUEEN STREET WOOLLAHRA NSW AUSTRALIA T . The drawing has been hanging in her room at Montefiore in recent years. This interview later formed part of the James Gleeson Oral History Collection. Judy Cassab was born in Vienna, Austria in . I was six, my brother, Peter, four; we both got measles and Judy painted a mural to amuse us. Author: Brenda Niall Title: Judy Cassab, A Portrait But even as her interests moved towards abstraction in the desert, Cassab continued to draw and paint portraits. In Sydney Cassab quickly gained recognition for her landscape and portrait art. 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 The Tweed section of the Northern Rivers Rail Trail opened this morning making 24km of the former rail line open to the public. [6], On 14 June 1969 Cassab was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in "recognition of service to the visual arts". 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. 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. Even after Russian forces liberated the city and Judy was reunited with Jancsi, hunger and hardship persisted. If there is an afterlife, Jancsi promised Judy the day before he died, I shall love you there. [7] Judy could not imagine her life without her art, and it is impossible to imagine the landscape of Australian art without Judy. You can browse the women featured on our webpage, Womens History Month. Following the publication of her diaries in 1995 (which won the Kibble Award for Literature in 1996) Cassab received an honorary Doctor of Letters (Hon. Dont be a passive reader, send us your epistles. [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. Our lives might have once seemed different, but I came to see that we've both travelled similar journeys. Sydney Morning Herald, April 22, 1953, 2. Judy passed away in her Sydney home in the early hours of Tuesday morning with her sons by her side. I blamed myself for John's unhappiness. He seemed to have no ambition, no money, he was meditating to save the world through peace and love. The couple moved to Sydney with their two sons in 1951, settling in Woollahra. Judy Cassab died in November 2015, leaving behind a significant body of work, exhibited both in Australia and internationally. Janet Hawley They were the only members of their families to do so. de Berg, Hazel (1962), 'Oral History Tape', National Library of Australia. 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. 25 Followers. Were working to restore it. I set up a studio in Peter's poolside gazebo, and Judy happily sketches as I sculpt. Features thousands of biographic and thematic essays on Jewish women around the world. What did Judy Cassab achieve in Australia? Their Australian life began in a Bondi boarding house with other Hungarian migrants some of whom were Jewish, others Nazis. I wrote in my diary: "Roughly my thoughts are: it's better than having a heroin addict. 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. It is different with the diaries. We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our Australian campuses stand. The space between viewer and subject ripples as Cassab looks back at us, reflected in a mirror. 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. View our latest updates. Join 1.7 Million Subscribers Subscribe for free to get the latest breaking news . As the bombing intensified in 1945, Judy spent even longer periods in the cramped confines of her bunker. They are a soft and loving conversation with the grandson she clearly adored. 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. The exhibition pays particular attention to the relationship between Judy (or Juci as she was called in the family) and her grandson Bodhi. Judy Cassab died in November 2015, leaving behind a significant body of work. Sep 17, 2018 - Explore Ingrid Richards's board "Judy Cassab (Australian 1920-2015)" on Pinterest. Judy Cassab was one of Australia's most respected female artists, renowned for her abilities as a portraitist. John: I was conceived on a tabletop in an empty lawyer's office in Budapest, in 1945. 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 family moved to Woollahra where Judy began painting in earnest. As a migrant and as a woman, Cassab overcame remarkable. Peter was a happier child; John was troubled and took longer to find his direction. My brother, a property developer, has a mansion near Judy's home, and Peter spends three months overseas annually, so I come down then and look after Judy. Judy Cassab Diaries is a book of her diary entries from 1944 to 1993. Judy Cassab (Australian, born 1920) Arid Vegetation. 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. Cassab was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents. We pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Was Judy cassab a refugee? JUDY REPRESENTED IN OVER 60 PUBLIC COLLECTIONS. 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. With John, everything is soul, nothing is material." Follow. Judy grew interested in the Rainforest Information Centre I'd established, and decided I hadn't thrown my life away after all. It includes artworks from the familys collection, illustrated letters, and unpublished passages from her diaries. Judy Cassab (1920 - 2015) was active/lived in Australia, Austria. Judy's sons, John and Peter help carry her portrait of Rapotec, her entry in the 1959 Archibald Prize. In 1964 and again in 1971 Cassab won the Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize; in 1965 she won the Helena Rubinstein Prize. There is a sense of intimacy, as though we have quietly entered the artists sanctuary. 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. Want this question answered? If you enjoyed reading this, please feel free to share it. Born Judith Kaszab in Vienna, she spent her childhood in Budapest, and studied there and in Prague. 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. Sort: Judy Cassab. JUDY CASSAB. Their Australian life began in a Bondi boarding house with other Hungarian migrants - some of whom were Jewish, others Nazis. I didn't get on with my brother, had a distant relationship with my father, and pushed my mother's affection away. Growing up on The Islandis a major solo exhibition by an artist continually seeking new ways to express his place within Bundjalung land. 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 . A goodness that radiated from her and that was palpable. I pray that I never have to.. She moves into a room advertised in the paper. Tributes flow for one of Australia's most acclaimed portrait painters, Judy Cassab, who has died at the age of 95. Born in 1920, she lived in Hungary until 1949, and she and her family immigrated to Australia in 1951. Entries came from both Australia and overseas. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - Knowing our history, Written by Elizabeth Heffernan, RAHS Intern. 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. The couple moved to Sydney with their two sons in 1951, settling in Woollahra. Cassab also had several other commissions to fulfill in London as a result of the 1959 exhibition. In 1951 the Cassabs (Kaszab) arrived in Australia. I take half a Valium, go to bed and pray.". Later in life, in a retrospective moment, the internationally renowned portrait painter and published diarist explained how painting and writing came to feature so prominently in her life: 'I had always thought that I expressed my thoughts with a brush. They arrived in Sydney in 1951 with their sons aged six and four, living at first in a boarding house in the seaside suburb of Bondi. 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