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Judy Cassab

Judy Cassab (1920 - 2015) was active/lived in Australia, Austria.  Judy Cassab is known for Expressionist and abstract image painting, portrait specialty.

Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter. She was born in Vienna, on 15 August 1920 to Hungarian parents. 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. Cassab worked in a factory under an assumed name and put her artistic skills to use after hours forging papers and passports.

Her husband, Jancsi Kampfner, was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944. Cassab, her husband and two sons emigrated to Australia in 1951 and settled in Sydney. Cassab became an Australian citizen in 1957.

Cassab twice was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize, the most important prize for portraiture in Australia.•    1960 for a portrait of Stan Rapotec[3]
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