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Birth
1921 (Amsterdam, Holland)
Death
2006 (Zurich, Switzerland)
Lived/Active
New York / France/Italy
Often Known For
abstract and portrait painting, sculpture
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| Karel Appel was a painter born on April 25, 1921 in Amsterdam, Holland;
his father was a barber. He studied at the Royal Academy in
Amsterdam in 1940-43. Appel sought to develop an impulsive formal
language based on life, in reaction to geometric academicism. He
even founded with others an experimental group. In Paris in 1949,
he focused on mastering creative power and did canvases that "look like
they were done in a rage". (Schatz) An action painter, Appel
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