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Christiaan Karel Appel (1921-2006) 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.
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''To paint is to destroy what preceded. I never try to make a painting, but a chunk of life. It is a scream; it is a night; it is like a child; it is a tiger behind bars''.
Karel Appel was born on April 25, 1921, in Amsterdam. From 1940 to 1943 he studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam. In 1946 his first solo show was held at Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, Netherlands, and he participated in Jonge Schilders (Young painters) at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. About this time, Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, then by Jean Dubuffet. He was a member of the Nederlandse Experimentele Groep (Dutch Experimental Group, 1948) and established the Cobra group (1948–51) with Constant (Constant Nieuwenhuys), Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis Beverloo), and other painters from Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam. The style distinguished itself through bold, expressive compositions inspired by folk and children's art, as well as by the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró. In 1949 Appel completed a fresco for the cafeteria of the city hall in Amsterdam, which created such controversy that it was covered for ten years.
In 1950 the artist moved to Paris; there the writer Hugo Claus introduced him to art critic Michel Tapié, who organized various exhibitions of his work. Appel was given a solo show at the Palais des beaux-arts, Brussels, in 1953. He received the UNESCO Prize at the 1954 Venice Biennale and was commissioned to execute a mural for the restaurant of the Stedelijk Museum in 1956. The following year Appel traveled to Mexico and the United States and won a graphics prize at the Ljubljana Biennial in Yugoslavia. The first major monograph on Appel, written by Claus, was published in 1962. In the late 1960s, the artist moved to the Chteau de Molesmes, near Auxerre, southeast of Paris. Solo exhibitions of his work were held at the Centre national d'art contemporain, Paris, and the Stedelijk Museum (1968), and at the Kunsthalle Basel and the Palais des beaux-arts (1969). During the 1950s and 1960s he executed numerous murals for public buildings. A major Appel show opened at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (1970), and a retrospective toured Canada and the United States (1972).
In the 1970s and 1980s, Appel continued to work simultaneously in sculpture and painting, pushing his abstraction further with his window paintings—a series he began in 1980. Appel also gradually introduced landscape into his iconography, which would develop into a more consistent engagement in the last decade of his work. In the 1980s, Appel also began his collaborations with American poet Allen Ginsberg, which would continue over the next ten years. In his later career, his work was the subject of numerous solo exhibitions organized by Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1982); Castello di Rivoli–Museo d'arte contemporanea, Turin, Italy (1987); National Museum of Art, Osaka (1989); Stedelijk Museum (1998, 2000, and 2001); and Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, Netherlands (2001). Appel died on May 3, 2006, in Zurich.
克里斯蒂安·卡雷爾·阿佩爾（1921-2006）是荷蘭畫家，雕塑家，詩人。他在十四歲開始繪畫，並在1940年在阿姆斯特丹就讀於里克斯美術學院。他是前衛運動眼鏡蛇1948年的創始人之一。
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''畫是摧毀之前什麼。我從來沒有嘗試做一幅畫，但生活的一大塊。這是一個尖叫;這是一個晚上;它像一個孩子;它是身陷囹圄'虎。
卡雷爾·阿佩爾出生於1921年4月25日，在阿姆斯特丹。從1940年到1943年他就讀於里克斯美術學院麵包車Beeldende KUNSTEN，阿姆斯特丹。 1946年他的第一次個展在的Het Beerenhuis，格羅寧根，荷蘭舉行，他在市立博物館，阿姆斯特丹參加了容格Schilders（年輕畫家）。大約在這個時候，阿佩爾由畢加索和馬蒂斯，然後由讓·杜布菲第一影響。他是荷屬Experimentele Groep的（荷蘭實驗組，1948年）的成員，並與來自哥本哈根，布魯塞爾和阿姆斯特丹恆（恆NIEUWENHUYS），乃依（紀堯姆科內利斯Beverloo），以及其他畫家建立了眼鏡蛇組（1948年至1951年） 。風格通過民間和孩子們的藝術靈感，以及由保羅·克利和米羅的作品大膽，表現成分戰功卓著。 1949年阿佩爾完成了市政府在阿姆斯特丹食堂，這創造了這樣的爭論，它覆蓋了十年的壁畫。
1950年，藝術家搬到巴黎;有作家雨果·克勞斯把他介紹給藝術評論家米歇爾·塔皮，誰組織自己的工作的各種展覽。阿佩爾被賦予在萬國宮美術學院，布魯塞爾個展，1953年他獲得了聯合國教科文組織獎在1954年威尼斯雙年展，並委託次年阿佩爾於1956年執行壁畫的市立博物館的餐廳前往墨西哥和美國，並贏得了圖形獎在盧布爾雅那雙年展南斯拉夫。在阿佩爾的第一個主要專著，由克勞斯撰寫，發表於1962年。在60年代後期，藝術家搬到Chteau德莫萊斯梅，歐塞爾，巴黎東南部靠近。他的作品的獨奏展覽，在該中心的國家科特迪瓦當代藝術博物館，巴黎舉行，市立博物館（1968年），並在巴塞爾藝術館和Palais des Beaux藝術（1969年）。在20世紀50年代和60年代，他執行公共建築眾多壁畫。主要阿佩爾展示在中央博物館，烏得勒支，荷蘭（1970年）開了，一個回顧參觀加拿大和美國（1972年）。
在20世紀70年代和80年代，阿佩爾繼續在雕塑和繪畫同時工作，推著進一步的抽象與他的畫作窗口-A系列，他開始在1980年阿佩爾也逐漸引入景觀到他的肖像，這將發展成為一個更加一致的訂婚他的工作的最後十年。在20世紀80年代，阿佩爾也開始了他與合作美國詩人艾倫·金斯堡，這將繼續在未來的十年。在他後來的職業生涯，他的工作是由Boijmans Van Beuningen博物館，鹿特丹舉辦無數的個人展覽的主題（1982年）;里沃利城堡 - 德博物館當代藝術，都靈，意大利（1987）;國立國際美術館（1989年）;市立博物館（1998年，2000年和2001年）;和眼鏡蛇孔斯特摩登娜博物館，阿姆斯特爾芬，荷蘭（2001）。阿佩爾去世於2006年5月3日，在蘇黎世。

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