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Karel Appel

Netherlands • 1921 - 2006  208 followers
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I like images that are strong, brutal, and ignored.

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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Nationality

Dutch

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Artistic movements

Art Brut, Art Informel

Themes

Abstract, Animal, Art brut
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Print, Salto Sobre La Cabeza, Karel Appel

Salto Sobre La Cabeza

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Composition, Karel Appel

Composition

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Luminous Cat, Karel Appel

Luminous Cat

Karel Appel

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, Los Parajeros, Karel Appel

Los Parajeros

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Sunshine Cat, Karel Appel

Sunshine Cat

Karel Appel

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, Once I was the Sun, Karel Appel

Once I was the Sun

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Frightened Cat, Karel Appel

Frightened Cat

Karel Appel

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

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Como el viento, Karel Appel

Como el viento

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Meeting in the Sun, Karel Appel

Meeting in the Sun

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Personnages, ca., Karel Appel

Personnages, ca.

Karel Appel

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

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Print, Walking Cat, Karel Appel

Walking Cat

Karel Appel

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, Blue Cat, Karel Appel

Blue Cat

Karel Appel

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

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