Karel Appel (1921 - 2006)
Personage
Oil on canvas 41.5 x 33 cm, signed lower left
(Including frame 66.5 x 56 cm)
Literature:
Exh.cat. Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, cat.no. 55.
Exhibition:
Saarbrücken (Germany), Saarland Museum, Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, 17 mrt.-16 apr. 1978; traveling exhibition: Venlo, Cultureel Centrum, Dertig jaar Karel Appel. Schilderijen van 1948-1978, 8 sep.-30 okt. 1978; Bonn. Rheinisches Landesmuseum, 12 apr.-27 mei 1979; Wilhelmshaven, Kunsthalle, 11 jul.-3 aug. 1980; Esbjerg (Denemarken), Kunstpavillonen, 29 mrt.-27 apr. 1980.
Karel Appel, an important Cobra painter
Karel Appel (1921–2006) is one of the most influential Dutch painters of the second half of the twentieth century. During the war years—between 1940 and 1943—Appel studied at the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam, together with Constant and Corneille, among others. In 1948, Karel Appel was closely involved in the founding of Cobra, named after the three cities from which the artists, poets, and writers ...
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