Wilfred Cass, an art collector and serial entrepreneur, escaped Nazi Germany, later establishing the Cass Sculpture Foundation and commissioning significant public artworks.
His son Mark stated, 'Looking at his legacy we wanted an open art prize... the Cass family has supported artists for 100 years.'
Wilfred, born into the Jewish Cassirer family, fled to London in 1936, where family connections to influential art circles shaped his appreciation for the arts.
Mark noted, 'I am not an artist but I must have some pigment in my blood,' underscoring the family’s deep-rooted involvement in the art world.
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