Christiaan Karel Appel was born on 25 April 1921 in his parents' house at Dapperstraat 7 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a child he was often called 'Kik'. On the ground floor his father, Jan Appel, had … 查看更多內容

From 1940 to 1943, during the German occupation, Appel studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and it was there he met the young painter Corneille and, some years later, Constant; they became close friends for years. His … 查看更多內容

Among the public collections holding works by Karel Appel are:
• Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, The Netherlands
• Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova, Turku 查看更多內容

• Kuspit, Donald (2010). "Titanic Power: Karel Appel in the Tradition of the New". Psychodrama: Modern Art as Group Therapy. London: Ziggurat. pp. 13–45. ISBN 9780956103895.
• Tapié, Michel; Amsterdam (Netherlands). Stedelijk Museum. Karel … 查看更多內容

Appel died on 3 May 2006 in his home in Zürich, Switzerland. He suffered from a heart ailment. He was buried on 16 May 2006 at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, France.
Years before his death, Appel established the Karel Appel … 查看更多內容

• Appel, Karel: Psychopathological Notebook. Drawings and Gouaches 1948–1950. Bern – Berlin: Verlag Gachnang & Springer, 1999. ISBN 978-3-906127-57-6 查看更多內容

• Galerie Max Hetzler, Karel Appel
• Karel Appel Foundation
• Karel Appel collection at the Israel Museum. Retrieved September 2016. 查看更多內容