The first woman to win the Archibald prize twice led a celebrated art career in which she painted some of Australia’s biggest names in media and the artsJudy Cassab,the Australian painter, two time winner of the Archibald portrait prize and Holocaust survivor has died in Sydney at the age of 95.
Cassab was born in Vienna to Hungarian parents and met her future husband estate manager Jancsi Kampfner in 1938. In a 2009 interview with Fairfax, and Cassab’s son John Seed said although his father was 18 years her senior – double his mother’s age when they met “their life had been an intense cherish affair”.
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Source: theguardian.com