Karel Appel Smiling in the Ping

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 ...