Karel Appel
Sign in to saveDutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921-2006)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1921
- Died
- 2006
- Works
- 50
Top works
- Karel Appel, peintre
- Sculture di Karel Appel
- Appel, figures et paysages
- Het bloed stroomt door
- À propos de l'exposition Appel à la Galerie Ariel, Juin 1977
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Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — himself2000
- Cobra et après1975
- De Appel-iep — Self1965
- The Reality of Karel Appel — Himself1962
- Karel Appel, Composer — Himself1961
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 818
- Total plays
- 2,902
Tags
musique concretePsychedelic Rockexperimentalnoisenetherlands
In 1963, long before art brut, free jazz ... hell, even before most of the 60s-lineage musical movements we’re still talking about today took form, abstract-expressionist painter karel christiaan appel logged time in the instituut voor sonologie (then recently relocated to the university of utrecht from eindhoven) to compose music for a documentary being made on ... himself by cinematographer jan vrijman ... Perhaps in attempts to capture an analog of his roughly-hewn visual style, appel absolu
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Ultrasensitive fluorescent proteins for imaging neuronal activity
· 2013 · cited 6,531x
- Protein Identification and Analysis Tools on the ExPASy Server
· 2005 · cited 6,087x
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- Asset Stock Accumulation and Sustainability of Competitive Advantage
· 1989 · cited 5,074x
- The Immune Landscape of Cancer
· 2018 · cited 4,663x
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Quotes
- “I paint like a barbarian in this barbarous time.”
- “in Dutch: Ik schilder als een barbaar in deze barbaarse tijd.”
- “Of course, I painted before Cobra, as afterwards. Each one of us [CoBrA-artists] had his own personality. Cobra is only a very short period of my life. It was like a crossroads. We crossed paths and each continued on his way.. ..We [artists] are not born to form groups. A group that lasted for too long would destroy the creative activity of its members.”
- “Now we'll start the song of the wild man who lives on the mountain top, who does not want to be seenlet us now start that song without words, without music, come on..(let's not do anything for at least ten minutes)That's the spirit, there he comes, the song of the inner voice, the song of the primitive man”
- “I have painted like an ape. The ape phase is in all my work. My first lick of paint is the ape phase, from that I grow towards a more intellectual phase, involving the lines, the rhythm. From that phase I grow towards mankind, for that is where the power of my imagination lies. It no longer has anything to do with reality, even though the world is present in it - for we recognize people, animals, plants, you name it.”
- “..at least fifty [gouaches painted in complete dark], one after another. Then I made a light, a candle, and I picked them up and turned them around, as I couldn't see a top or a bottom. I finished them off as I felt fit, a bit more white or a red spot [in his studio in Amsterdam, in 1947”
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Key facts
- Born
- Christiaan Karel Appel , ( 1921-04-25 ) 25 April 1921, Amsterdam , Netherlands
- Died
- 3 May 2006 (2006-05-03) (aged 85), Zürich , Switzerland
- Education
- Rijksakademie
- Known for
- Painting, drawing, sculpture, wall-painting
- Movement
- CoBrA
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Key dates
- Born
- 25 April 1921
- Died
- 4 May 2006
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Karel
- Family name
- Appel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Amsterdam
- Place of death
- Zurich
- Educated at
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Native language
- Dutch
Works in European collections
1 object attributed to Karel Appel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
Christiaan Karel Appel ( pronounced [ˈkrɪstijaːŋ ˈkaːrəl ˈɑpəl] ; 25 April 1921 – 3 May 2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.
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