Artnet: Spotlight: An Exhibition in Milan Juxtaposes Two of Midcentury Europe’s Most Intriguing Artists, Karel Appel and Enrico Baj
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Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel 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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culture · Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet (1921–2006) · painter · sculptor · printmaker · muralist · illustrator · poet · ceramicist · draftsperson · scenographer · visual artist · also Karel Appel, Appel Karel, Christiaan Karel Appel, C. K. Appel, Karel Apel, Christaan Karel Appel
Born 25 April 1921 · Died 3 May 2006 · Q152793
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2021· 1 entry
PAROOL: De erfenis van ‘schildersbeest’ Karel Appel: ‘Dat relativerende, heerlijk’
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2016· 4 entries
Volkskrant: Karel Appel, NUHR en echte winters
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NRC: Karel Appel was geen knoeier
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Omroep West: Karel Appel Retrospectief in het Gemeentemuseum Den Haag: 'De energie spat van het doek af'
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Volkskrant: Karel Appel deed veel meer dan 'anrotzooien'
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2015· 1 entry
PAROOL: 'Karel Appel' uit Tussen Kunst en Kitsch is gemaakt door Jon Marten
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2012· 1 entry
The works were found in a disused UK warehouse and returned to the foundation
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Zilveren Anjer (2006).
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Died 2006-05-03.
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2002· 1 entry
A number of Appel's works went missing on the way to his foundation, an event that was not to be resolved before his death
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1950· 1 entry
And developed his international reputation by travelling to Mexico, the United States, Yugoslavia, and Brazil
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1949· 1 entry
Participated with the other CoBrA artists in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; this generated a huge scandal and many objections in the press and public
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1948· 1 entry
Appel joined CoBrA (coined by the Belgian poet Christian Dotremont from the initials of the members' home countries' capital cities: Copenhagen, Brussels, Amsterdam) together with the Dutch artists Corneille, Constant, a
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1947· 1 entry
Started sculpting with all kinds of used materials (in the technique of assemblage) and painted them in bright colors: white, red, yellow, blue, and black
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1921· 1 entry
Born 1921-04-25.
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