Images for Someone B Orn in 1969 Clip Art
Judy Cassab
Austria, Australia, Hungary
Born: Vienna, Austria 15 Aug 1920
Died: Sydney, New Southward Wales, Australia 03 November 2015
Portrait of Judy Cassab in the early 1990s past Robert Walker © Estate of Robert Walker. Source: Art Gallery of New South Wales Archive
Biography
A 2-time winner of the Archibald Prize, Judy Cassab was a portraitist of immense insight and imagination, seemingly able to capture not just a sitter'southward likeness but the spirit of their times. As well as painting social luminaries, royals, beau artists, family and friends, she was also a prolific draughtswoman and an acclaimed landscape creative person.
Born Judit Kaszab in Vienna in 1920 to Jewish Hungarian parents, Cassab started painting at the age of 12. She began her formal studies at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but these were cut curt past the oncoming 2d World War and she was forced to abscond the High german occupation in 1939. She resumed her studies in Budapest in 1941 with Aurel Bernath and Lipot Hermann – the same twelvemonth her husband Jancsi Kampfner was conscripted to piece of work in labour camps (she had married him in 1939 on the condition that she be allowed to pursue a career as an artist). After the state of war Cassab and her husband learnt that their immediate families had died in Nazi concentration camps; Cassab herself evaded persecution during the state of war by posing equally her family's Catholic maid.
The couple moved to Sydney with their ii sons in 1951, settling in Woollahra. In the following years Cassab established herself equally a portrait painter of considerable renown, rendering her subjects with an expressionist fashion influenced by European modernists.
In 1953 she held the get-go of what would be more 70 career solo exhibitions, but it was in 1960 that she came to public prominence when she became only the second woman to win the Archibald Prize, for her portrait of young man creative person Stanislaus Rapotec. In 1967 she was the get-go adult female to win the prize for a second time, for her portrait of Margo Lewers. The Fine art Gallery of NSW acquired both these works and later her portrait of Hal Missingham, and so director of the Gallery, which was a finalist in the 1970 prize. Overall, Cassab exhibited 41 works in the competition between 1952 and 1998. (She also won several watercolour awards for mural works in the Wynne Prize contest betwixt 1973 and 2003.)
In 1959, at the suggestion of author and journalist Frank Clune, Cassab made a journey to Alice Springs. It would be the outset of many to the key desert over the side by side 3 decades.
My optics burn from the vivid colours of the day. I take never experienced this. Colour has always been something which pops upward here and there in spots and hues, something on which the painter's glance focuses. Here, it's a physical force, hit you not only frontally but sideways and from the dorsum … I understood, for the first time since arriving in Australia, that 1 tin can honey the soil.
The forms Cassab encountered in the landscape inspired her to escape from the strictures of being a purely figurative creative person. She was encouraged to explore abstraction by the Swiss artist Paul Haefliger, art critic for Art in Australia and the Sydney Forenoon Herald: 'Do you desire to exist a fashionable portraitist or exercise y'all want to be an creative person? Try something y'all oasis't tried before, for God'southward sake. Try abstract'.
Detail of Ormiston 1959, painted in her Sydney studio from an oil written report made on site, is one of her earliest paintings of primal Australia and a radical departure from the familiar human figures of her before works.
Just fifty-fifty as her interests moved towards abstraction in the desert, Cassab connected to draw and paint portraits. In 1984 she compiled a portfolio of lithographs of eminent Australian cultural figures, including artists Donald Friend, Sidney Nolan and Lloyd Rees.
Cassab was made a commander of the British Empire in 1969, then an officer of the Order of Australia in 1988. In 1980 she became but the second female trustee of the Art Gallery of NSW trustee. In 2011 she was awarded Republic of hungary's Gilt Cross of Merit and in the same twelvemonth she generously donated 400 of her works to small Australian galleries. She died in Sydney in 2015, aged 95.
Other works by Judy Cassab
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Source: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/artists/cassab-judy/
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