Biography Karel Appel

Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in Amsterdam. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1946 his first solo show was held at Het Beerenhuis in Groningen, the Netherlands, and he participated in the Jonge Schilders exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam. About this time Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. He was a member of the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep and established the COBRA movement in 1948 with Constant, Corneille, and others. In 1949 Appel completed a fresco for the cafeteria of the city hall in Amsterdam, which created such controversy that it was covered for ten years.

In 1950 the artist moved to Paris; there the writer Hugo Claus introduced him to Michel Tapié, who organized various exhibitions of his work. Appel was given a solo show at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1953. He received the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale of 1954, and was commissioned to execute a mural for the restaurant of the Stedelijk Museum in 1956. The following year Appel travelled to Mexico and the United States and won a graphics prize at the Ljubljana Biennial in Yugoslavia. He was awarded an International Prize for Painting at the São Paulo Bienal in 1959. The first major monograph on Appel, written by Claus, was published in 1962. In the late 1960s the artist moved to the Château de Molesmes, near Auxerre, southeast of Paris. Solo exhibitions of his work were held at the Centre National d’Art Contemporain in Paris and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1968, and at the Kunsthalle Basel and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels in 1969. During the 1950s and 1960s he executed numerous murals for public buildings. A major Appel show opened at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht in 1970, and a retrospective of his work toured Canada and the United States in 1972. Appel lives in New York and outside Florence.

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Karel Appel.

Appel har, genom áren, visat sig vara en mycket sympatisk konstnär

och en enorm personlighet.

Vi har, under alla ár, haft en fin kontakt och

den stora separat-utställningen hos oss pá Galleri ESS

var mycket välbesökt och i stort sett sáldes alla málningar

till konstintresserade kunder som

nu kan glädja sig át en trevlig och, inte minst, stor värdeökning.

Vid ett flertal tillfällen drack vi tillsammans i Paris, med

andra konstnärer, nágra flaskor gott ”gammalt” franska rödvin.

Vára stunder pá diverse konstnärsbarer

sitter för alltid inskrivna i min minnes-dag-bok.

Vad roligt vi hade tillsammans!

Karel Appel   Born in Amsterdam  1921

Flowers and animals - 1951

Appel has his first separate exhibition 1947, he travels to Paris in 1948 together with Corneille, returning from Paris they meet Constant.  Appel, Corneille and Constant exhibits together in 1948.

Appel has always had this fantastic selection of colours, and especially the red which I think must be one of his favourite colours.
 
 

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