Dancer - Robert Helpmann by Judy Cassab - Australian postcard c.1970s

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• Picture / Image:  Oil painting of Sir Robert Helpmann by Judy Cassab from the Sydney Opera House Theatre Foyer
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Sir Robert Murray Helpmann, CBE (né Helpman, 9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director and choreographer. After early work in Australia he moved to Britain in 1932, where he joined the Vic-Wells Ballet under its creator, Ninette de Valois. He became one of the company's leading men, partnering Alicia Markova and later Margot Fonteyn. When Frederick Ashton, the company's chief choreographer, was called up for military service in the Second World War Helpmann took over from him while continuing as a principal dancer.

From the outset of his career Helpmann was an actor as well as a dancer, and in the 1940s he turned increasingly to acting in plays, at the Old Vic and in the West End. Most of his roles were in Shakespeare plays but he also appeared in works by Shaw, Coward, Sartre and others. As a director his range was wide, from Shakespeare to opera, musicals and pantomime.

In 1965 Helpmann became co-director of the Australian Ballet, for whom he created several new ballets. He became sole director in 1975 but disagreements with the company's board led to his dismissal a year later. He directed for Australian Opera and acted in stage plays into the 1980s. Although primarily a stage artist, he appeared in fifteen films between 1942 (One of Our Aircraft is Missing) and 1984 (Second Time Lucky), including The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

Helpmann died in Sydney and was given a state funeral in St Andrew's Cathedral. The Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, gave a tribute in the Parliament of Australia, and a motion of condolence was passed – a rare tribute for a non-politician. Helpmann is commemorated in the Helpmann Awards for Australian performing arts, established in his honour in 2001.

Judy Cassab AO CBE (15 August 1920 – 3 November 2015), born Judit Kaszab, was an Australian painter.

Judy Cassab was born in Vienna on the 15th of August 1920 to Hungarian parents. Cassab began painting at twelve years old and began studying at the Academy of Art in Prague in 1938 but was forced to flee the German occupation in 1939.[1] Cassab worked in a factory under an assumed name and put her artistic skills to use after hours forging papers and passports.[2]

Her husband, Jancsi Kampfner, was put in a forced labour camp by the Nazis in World War II, and returned to Hungary in 1944.[1]

Cassab, her husband and two sons emigrated to Australia in 1951 and settled in Sydney.[2] Cassab became an Australian citizen in 1957.[2]

Career

Cassab was the first woman to win the Archibald Prize twice:

1960 for a portrait of Stan Rapotec[3]

1967 for a portrait of Margo Lewers.[4]

She held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Australia, as well as others in Paris and London.[5]

After Cassab's work was acquired by the National Gallery, she was interviewed by James Gleeson about how she captured people's character in their portraits. This interview later formed part of the James Gleeson Oral History Collection.[6]