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APPEL Karel
(1921-2006)
"I paint with palette knifes or the hands spreads out, sometimes of the whole pots of only one blow"
Karel APPEL, a few dates

1921 born in 1921 in Amsterdam
1948 creates with Corneille and Constant an experimental group ("Reflex") as opposed to the geometrical abstraction
1949 the group joins the Cobra movement
1957 Portraits of jazz musicians and other portraits and nudes
1964 initiates a work on big polychrome reliefs and on wooden and polyester sculptures
1976 collaboration with people from Lima for creation of mural paintings
2006 died in Zurich on May 11th 2006