Original lithograph Karel Appel - ABCD 1977

Main works

Little Moon Men (1946), Questioning Children (1949), Face in a Landscape (1961), The Whirling Sun (1966)

Artistic movements

Cobra, Modern art, Expressionism

Inspiration, influence

Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Jean Dubuffet

His contemporaries

Asger Jorn and Pierre Alechinsky (co-founders of the CoBrA group).

To keep in mind

Karel Appel, a Dutch painter and sculptor, is one of the co-founders of the CoBrA group. Inspired by Van Gogh and figurative Expressionism, he adopts a gestural, primitive, and spontaneous expression characterized by bright and often daring colors.

To go further

His works are exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, MoMA, Tate Modern and the Rijksmuseum.