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APPEL Karel, born 1921 Amsterdam. Dutch painter. |
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| 1940-43 | Studied
painting at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. Painted in a naturalistic style. |
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| 1948 | Co-founder
of the Experimental Group that later became CoBrA. Other members of the
group included Alechinsky, Jorn, Constant and Corneille. They put on
joint-exhibitions and published a magazine. |
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| 1948 | Unveiling
of a large wooden relief, commissioned for the city hall in Amsterdam,
caused a scandal. |
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| 1950 | Moved
to Paris. |
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| 1951 | CoBrA
disbanded. Produced oil paintings, ceramics, church windows, reliefs and
sculptures in wood and polyester. |
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| 1956 | Murals
for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and ... |
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| 1958 | for
UNESCO in Paris, as well as the 100 metre long 'Energy Wall' in
Rotterdam. |
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| 1959 | Participation
in documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1964 | Participation
in documenta 3 in Kassel. |
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| 1964/65 | Large multicolored reliefs and figures in wood and polyester. | |||
| 1971 | First monumental sculptures out of aluminium in the USA. | |||
| 1989 | Large retrospectives in five Japanese museums. | |||
Appel was a key member of the CoBrA-founding, because the artists of this group wanted to be free from debates about the relative merits of abstraction and figuration, believing in instinct over reason. Rather than trying to reproduce the world around them, they aimed to exploit the free expression of their unconscious. They painted images that were both abstract and figurative, demonstrating that energy and spontaneity were more important than rationality and design. |
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