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Karel Appel

Karel Appel

Netherlands • 1921 - 2006 • 220 followers
Featured in: Master Artists

I like images that are strong, brutal, and ignored.

Nationality

Dutch

Categories

Printmakers

Artistic movements

Art Brut, Art Informel

Themes

Abstract, Animal, Art brut

Biography

Karel Appel is a Dutch artist born in Amsterdam in 1921 (He died in 2006). From 1940 to 1943, he studied at the Beaux-Art academy in Amsterdam.

In 1948, with Corneille and Constant, Karel Appel creates the experimental group "Reflex", the Dutch division of the CoBra group, a movement gathering artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam and born in reaction to the fight between abstraction and figuration. The artists of this movement gather around their common interest in primitive, naive, and popular art, and the idea that everyone can practice art.

Influenced by the artwork of Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee and Henri Matisse, Karel Appel is notably known for his numerous wood panels in relief and his wall paintings about childhood. At the limit of abstraction, his artworks are characterized by the use of bright and pure colors in a naive and charged aesthetic.

In 2009, the Lelong Gallery holds an exhibition for him under the name "Peintures 2000-2001" and in 2012; his artworks are presented during the exhibition "Cobra- Sous le regard d'un passionné" at the LAAC in Dunkerque.

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Print, Karel in his Studio, Karel Appel

Karel in his Studio

Print . 85 x 70 x 1 cm Print . 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

£788

Print, Animal Fantastique, Karel Appel

Animal Fantastique

Print . 72.5 x 86 x 0.1 cm Print . 28.5 x 33.9 x 0 inch

£3,985

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Print, Pour Jorn, Karel Appel

Pour Jorn

Print . 75 x 54 cm Print . 29.5 x 21.3 inch

£1,417

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Print, Tantrika II, Karel Appel

Tantrika II

Print . 76 x 56 x 0.05 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 x 0 inch

£974

Print, Floating in a Landscape, Karel Appel

Floating in a Landscape

Print . 54.6 x 74.9 cm Print . 21.5 x 29.5 inch

£1,455

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Print, Sans-titre, Karel Appel

Sans-titre

Print . 59.5 x 79.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 23.4 x 31.3 x 0 inch

£1,284

Print, Le Philosophe, Karel Appel

Le Philosophe

Print . 65.5 x 49.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 25.8 x 19.5 x 0 inch

£2,192

Print, Sad Cat, Karel Appel

Sad Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, The Woman with Golden Eye, Karel Appel

The Woman with Golden Eye

Print . 75.5 x 55 x 0.2 cm Print . 29.7 x 21.7 x 0.1 inch

£1,683

Print, Yellow Head, Karel Appel

Yellow Head

Print . 85 x 70 x 1 cm Print . 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

£2,117

Print, About A Cat, Karel Appel

About A Cat

Print . 62.9 x 81.9 x 0.3 cm Print . 24.75 x 32.25 x 0.1 inch

£1,475

Print, Resting Cat, Karel Appel

Resting Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Pink Butterfly, Karel Appel

Pink Butterfly

Print . 80 x 100 x 1 cm Print . 31.5 x 39.4 x 0.4 inch

£1,497

Print, Walking Cat, Karel Appel

Walking Cat

Print . 62.9 x 81.9 x 0.3 cm Print . 24.75 x 32.25 x 0.1 inch

£1,475

Print, Pink Cat, Karel Appel

Pink Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Innocent Cat, Karel Appel

Innocent Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, About A Cat, Karel Appel

About A Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Blue Cat, Karel Appel

Blue Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Cat in the Night, Karel Appel

Cat in the Night

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Devil Cat, Karel Appel

Devil Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Green Cat, Karel Appel

Green Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, House Cat, Karel Appel

House Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Smiling Cat, Karel Appel

Smiling Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Walking Cat, Karel Appel

Walking Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

£1,966

Print, Walking with my Bird, Karel Appel

Walking with my Bird

Print . 54.6 x 74.9 cm Print . 21.5 x 29.5 inch

£1,180

Print, Happy Battle, Karel Appel

Happy Battle

Print . 54.6 x 74.9 cm Print . 21.5 x 29.5 inch

£1,101

Print, Blue Raven, Karel Appel

Blue Raven

Print . 100 x 80 x 1 cm Print . 39.4 x 31.5 x 0.4 inch

£1,497

Print, Appel at Work, Karel Appel

Appel at Work

Print . 85 x 70 x 1 cm Print . 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

£611

Painting, Sans titre, Karel Appel

Sans titre

Painting . 77.5 x 56.5 x 0.2 cm Painting . 30.5 x 22.2 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Los Parajeros, Karel Appel

Los Parajeros

Print . 76 x 56 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 inch

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Painting, Composition, Karel Appel

Composition

Painting . 26 x 23 x 0.1 cm Painting . 10.2 x 9.1 x 0 inch

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Painting, L’homme avec la tortue., Karel Appel

L’homme avec la tortue.

Painting . 81 x 100 x 4 cm Painting . 31.9 x 39.4 x 1.6 inch

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Print, Sans-titre, Karel Appel

Sans-titre

Print . 26.3 x 28.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 10.4 x 11.2 x 0 inch

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Print, Purple Owl, Karel Appel

Purple Owl

Print . 90 x 80 x 2 cm Print . 35.4 x 31.5 x 0.8 inch

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Print, Paysages Humains, Karel Appel

Paysages Humains

Print . 51 x 51 x 1.5 cm Print . 20.1 x 20.1 x 0.6 inch

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Print, Sans titre 1, Karel Appel

Sans titre 1

Print . 76 x 56 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 inch

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Print, Sans-titre, Karel Appel

Sans-titre

Print . 33 x 23 x 0.1 cm Print . 13 x 9.1 x 0 inch

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Print, Meeting in the Sun, Karel Appel

Meeting in the Sun

Print . 57 x 73 x 0.3 cm Print . 22.4 x 28.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Los parajeros, Karel Appel

Los parajeros

Print . 76 x 56 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 inch

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Print, L’Oeil du cirque, Karel Appel

L’Oeil du cirque

Print . 76 x 56.5 x 0.1 cm Print . 29.9 x 22.2 x 0 inch

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Print, Composition, Karel Appel

Composition

Print . 62 x 81 x 0.3 cm Print . 24.4 x 31.9 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Blue Cat, Karel Appel

Blue Cat

Print . 62.9 x 81.9 x 0.3 cm Print . 24.75 x 32.25 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Luminous Cat, Karel Appel

Luminous Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

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Print, Salto Sobre La Cabeza, Karel Appel

Salto Sobre La Cabeza

Print . 76 x 56 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 inch

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Print, Frightened Cat, Karel Appel

Frightened Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

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Print, Sunshine Cat, Karel Appel

Sunshine Cat

Print . 62.2 x 81.9 x 1.3 cm Print . 24.5 x 32.25 x 0.5 inch

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Print, Personnages, ca., Karel Appel

Personnages, ca.

Print . 38 x 52.5 x 0.2 cm Print . 15 x 20.7 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Floating Black Passion, Karel Appel

Floating Black Passion

Print . 73.7 x 99.1 cm Print . 29 x 39 inch

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Print, Como el viento, Karel Appel

Como el viento

Print . 76 x 56 cm Print . 29.9 x 22 inch

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Print, Red Head, Karel Appel

Red Head

Print . 85 x 70 x 1 cm Print . 33.5 x 27.6 x 0.4 inch

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Print, Walking Cat, Karel Appel

Walking Cat

Print . 62.9 x 81.9 x 0.3 cm Print . 24.75 x 32.25 x 0.1 inch

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Print, Once I was the Sun, Karel Appel

Once I was the Sun

Print . 56 x 76 x 0.2 cm Print . 22 x 29.9 x 0.1 inch

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