Karel Appel
Dutch painter and sculptor
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. Wikipedia
Born: April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: May 3, 2006 (age 85 years), Zürich, Switzerland
Periods: COBRA, Modern art, and Expressionism
Influenced by: Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, and Henri Matisse
On view: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Spouse: Harriet Appel (m. ?–2006) and Machteld van der Groen (m. ?–1970)
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