Full Name Judit Kaszab Occupation Artist | Spouse(s) Janos Kampfler Name Judy Cassab | |
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Artwork Margo Lewers, Girl Reading, Still Life & Bridge | ||
Australian artist given Hungarian honour
2 Paintings Make News (1960)
Judit Kaszab (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), better known as Judy Cassab, was an Australian painter.
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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:
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.
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".
On 26 January 1988 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) again in "recognition of service to the visual arts".
On 3 March 1995 she was awarded a Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) from the University of Sydney.