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Karel Appel More Art

Dutch, 1921-2006
Karel Appel was a founding member of COBRA, an art movement originating in Germany that strived to replicate and invoke the child’s approach to art. Within this movement he created abstracted and simplified figures, often monsters and fractured depictions of people.
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Artist: Karel Appel
Painted Book
Painted Book

Painted Book

By Karel Appel

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Karel Appel (1921-2006) was an important contributor / sddisruptor in the evolution of 20th-century abstraction and one of the founders of the COBRA movement. Appel grew up in Amste...

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