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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Amsterdam
- Educated at
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunstenRoyal Academy of Fine Arts
- Awards
- 🏆 Commander of the Order of the Netherlands Lion
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Trending topics shown first"..And his painting is like the wind, like a breeze blowing the paint across the canvas, so unreal, so loose and far away from the worldly life."
"'Karel Appel, Le cheval mourant, 1956', text by Valeriano Bozal – in B’09: Bulletin. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, no. 5, 2010"
"Theories / are things.. .Absence and nonexistence / of theories are things."
"..people always talk about painting, because basically painting does not talk."
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Timeline
1921
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Died
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