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Also known as Appel Karel, Christiaan Karel Appel, C. K. Appel, Karel Apel, Christaan Karel Appel, C.K. Appel, K. Appel

Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921-2006)

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Karel Appel (1921–2006) was a Dutch painter, sculptor, printmaker, and muralist. Born in Amsterdam, he held citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands and died in Zurich. His artistic career was associated with the COBRA movement and abstract expressionism. He received education at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten.

Appel worked in Amsterdam, Denmark, and Paris. He participated in Documenta II and Documenta III. His works are held in the collections of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Städel Museum, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. He is buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Country
Netherlands
Active from
1921
Active to
2006

Discography

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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

via Last.fm · Karel Appel

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

via Wikipedia infobox

Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Karel Appel, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

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.

Childhood

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