Judit Kaszab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), better known as Judy Cassab, was an Australian painter.
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 (CBE) in "recognition of service to the visual arts".[2]
On 26 January 1988 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) 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]
Awards
1961 - Archibald Prize (portrait of Stanislaus Rapotec)
1964 - Sir Charles LLoyd Jones Memorial Prize
1965 - The Helena Rubenstein Prize
1968 - Archibald Prize (portrait of Margo Lewers)
1971 - Sir Charles Lloyd Jones Memorial Prize
1994 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW; The Trustees Watercolour Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
1997 - The Pring Prize, Art Gallery of NSW
References
"Two time Archibald Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Judy Cassab dies". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
"Judy Cassab CBE". Australian Honours Database. 14 June 1969. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
"Judy Cassab AO". Australian Honours Database. 26 January 1988. Retrieved 15 August 2007.
"Citation for Honorary Doctorate". University of Sydney. 3 March 1995.
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