KAREL APPEL
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Born in 1921 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Died in 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland.
A founder of the CoBrA association of painters, Karel Appel rendered expressionist canvases with vibrant color, violent brushwork, and thick application of impasto paint. The artist derived much inspiration from primitive art and children’s drawings, and was influenced by contemporaries such as Jean Dubuffet, the major exponent of Art Brut. Though Appel is primarily known for his paintings that combine elements of both figuration and of abstraction, the artist also experimented with relief paintings, sculpture, and design.
EDUCATION
1942
Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SOLO SHOWS
2019
Figures et Paysages, Almine Rech, Paris, France
Karel Appel : Late Nudes, 1985-1997, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2018
Tête en carton. Collagen 1960 - 1967, Jahn und Jahn, Munich, Germany
Out of Nature, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
2017
Works on Paper 1945-2006, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
L’art est une fête !, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
2016
Der abstrakte Blick, Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, Germany
A Gesture of Color. Paintings and Sculptures, 1947-2004, The Phillips Collection, Washington, USA
Paintings from Six Decades, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Karel Appel Retrospectief / Karel Appel Retrospective, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Reset, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015
Works on paper, Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2014
Karel Appel, Blum & Poe, New York, USA
2013
I do not paint, I hit!, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
2011
Karel Appel & Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh Huis, Zundert, The Netherlands
2010
Paintings from five Decades, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
2009
Peintures 2000–2001, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2008
The Sixties, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Jazz 1958–1962, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Opere 1990–2002, Galleria Arte 92, Milan, Italy
2007
Works on paper 1949 – 2005, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Monumentale Aktzeichnungen, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2006
Last Paintings, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
2005
Retrospective 1945–2005, Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Opere 1991–2002, Galleria Arte 92, Milan, Italy
Recente Werken, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2004
The Cobra Years, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Paperworks of Karel Appel, National Museum, Belgrade, Serbia
New Works on Paper, JG Contemporary, New York, USA
Onderweg: Reis van Rudi Fuchs langs de Kunst der Lage Landen, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2003
Karel Appel: oeuvres sur papier 1999-2002, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
2002
Karel Appel, Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
Karel Appel: Japanese Landscapes, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Karel Appel: werken op papier, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Mutation in Motion, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
2001
Karel Appel: Beelden 1936–2000, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Der Machtwille der Planeten, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Pastorale Chiaroscuro, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Karel Appel: “Sag zum Abschied leise Servus”, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Karel Appel: Werk op papier, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2000
Karel Appel: Recente sculpturen & gedichten, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Karel Appel: 2000, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1999
Karel Appel: Toys from the Attic, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway
Karel Appel... Peintures, dessins et sculptures, Scène National d’Orléans, France
1998
Sculptures without a Hero, The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Psychopathological Art 1948–50, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sculptures without a Hero, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Appel: Natural Phenomenon, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Birth of a Landscape, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Thinking Spaces, Kärntner Landesgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria
Karel Appel, Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
1997
Unintended Monuments, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
1996
Karel Appel, Die Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
Karel Appel: Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950–1965, BAWAG Fondation, Vienna, Austria
Appel: Figures et Paysages, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France
Karel Appel: Variazioni sul tema, Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
1995
Ich bin die Erde der alles entspringt, Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria
Karel Appel: Sculpture, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Toskanischer Horizont, Galerie Lelong, Zurich, Switzerland
1993
Singing Donkeys: Nieuwe beelden van Karel Appel, Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, The Netherlands
1991
Karel Appel Retrospective, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Karel Appel: Black & White Paintings, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, US
1990
Karel Appel: Ik wou dat ik een vogel was. Grote formaten in de Beurs van Berlage, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Karel Appel, Fine arts gallery, Visual arts department, UMBC, Baltimore, USA
Karel Appel: Ik wou dat ik een vogel was, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
1989
Karel Appel in Tokyo: 18 Works on Paper, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Appel, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
1988
Karel Appel: Portraits, Galerie de France, Paris, France
Karel Appel: Portraits from the Titan Series, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
1987
Karel Appel: Dipinti, sculture e collages, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Peinture-Sculpture-Dessin, Galerie d’Art Contemporain des Musées de Nice & Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France
1986
Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture; Clouds, Windmill, Nudes and Other Mythologies, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, USA
Karel Appel: Paintings 1980–1985, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Karel Appel: Recent Paintings, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, USA
1985
Karel Appel, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy
Karel Appel: New Yorker Bilder 1984–1985, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Karel Appel: CoBrA Paintings 1948-1951, James Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Appel 1950 – 1970, The Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Karel Appel, Listasafn, Reykjavik, Iceland
Karel Appel: Recent work / oeuvres récentes / 1980–1983, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Karel Appel, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: 14 Cobra-werken op papier, Collection d’Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Karel Appel, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, USA
1983
Karel Appel: Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Karel Appel: Recent Paintings, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, USA
Karel Appel: New Work, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
1982
Het Nieuwe Werk van Karel Appel 1979 - 1981, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Karel Appel: Werk op papier 1941 – 1981, tekeningen, aquarellen, gouaches, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
25 Years on the Road: A Visual Tribute to Kerouac, Boulder Center for the Visual Arts, Boulder, USA
1981
Karel Appel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Karel Appel: tentoonstelling t.g.v. zijn 60-ste verjaardag, Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, The Netherlands
Appel, Museu de Arte do São Paulo, Brasil
Karel Appel: Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
1980
Karel Appel, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Karel Appel Recent Work, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, USA
1979
The Graphic Art of Karel Appel: Art Gallery of Hamilton Collection, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
1978
Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany
Karel Appel: Peintures et Sculpture, Fondation Château de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France
1977
Prints, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Karel Appel, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Karel Appel: The Complete Graphic Collection, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
1976
Karel Appel, Collection d’art, Amsterdam, The NEtherlands
Karel Appel: Schilderijen, gouaches, acryls, keramische beelden 1950-1975, Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, The Netherlands
1976
Karel Appel: Paintings of the 60’s, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
1975
Karel Appel, Aberbach Fine Art, New York, USA
Appel, Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer, New York, USA
Appel, Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Appel: Paintings, Wildenstein, London, UK
1974
Karel Appel Retrospective, Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, USA
Karel Appel: Retrospective 1955–1973; Oils, Acrylics, Gouaches, Lithographs, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, USA
Karel Appel: Paintings from the 50’s and 60’s’, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
1973
Karel Appel: The Early Fifties - Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings, Ceramics 1950–56, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
1972
Appel’s Appels, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1971
Karel Appel, Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg, Denmark
Karel Appel, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
1970
Appel’s Oogappels, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1969
Appel: Peinture acrylic, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1968
Karel Appel: Reliefs 1966–68, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1967
Karel Appel, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Paintings, Gouaches, Graphics, Redfern Gallery, London, UK
Appel, Galerie Ariel, Paris, Paris
1966
Karel Appel: paintings and graphics, Makler Gallery, Philadelphia, US
1965
Appel, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1964
Appel Nudes, Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York, USA
Appel, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen,, Denmark
Karel Appel, Galleria Blu, Milan, Italy
Karel Appel from California Collections, Pavilion Gallery, Balboa, USA
Karel Appel: Object-Paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
1963
Karel Appel: Paintings, Sculpture, Graphics, Books, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Selezione di dipinti dal 1950 al 1961, La Medusa, Rome, Italy
Karel Appel: Dix Ans de Lithographie 1953 - 1963, Galerie Anderson - Mayer, Paris, France
Appel, Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, The Netherlands
Appel Nudes, Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1962
Karel Appel: Collages 1949–1962, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, Switzerland
Karel Appel, Galerie Der Spiegel, Cologne, Germany
Karel Appel: Paintings 1951–1956, Stephen Hahn Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Sculptures, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
1961
Karel Appel. Gouaches and Lithographs, David Anderson Gallery, New York, USA
Appel, Gallery Moos, Toronto, Canade
Karel Appel, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
K. Appel, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
Karel Appel, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Karel Appel: West Coast Exhibiton, San Francisco Art Museum, USA
1960
Karel Appel, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
Karel Appel, Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, Italy
Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Lithographs by Appel, David Anderson Gallery, New York, USA
1959
Dipingere coi tessuti, Il Centro Internazionale della Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Oil paintings from 1952–1959 by Karel Appel, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Appel, Gendai Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Karel Appel, Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zurich, Switzerland
1958
Karel Appel, Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, Germany
Appel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Appel: Gouaches et céramiques, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1957
Paintings: Karel Appel, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Appel: New paintings, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Appel, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France
Karel Appel, Galerie Espace, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Appel, Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, Italy
1956
Appel, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
Karel Appel: Portraits, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
K. Appel: Dipinti e ceramiche, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
1955
Karel Appel, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
1954
Appel, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
Karel Appel: First American Exhibition, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, USA
1953
Karel Appel, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1951
Karel Appel, Kunstzaal van Lier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1949
Karel Appel, Het Beerenhuis, Groningen, The Netherlands
GROUP SHOWS
2021
Color Vibrations, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2020
Summer, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Disonata, Art in Sound up to 1980, al Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2019
Ding / Unding. The Artist’s Book Unbound, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, Switzerland
2018
Wow! The Heidi Horten Collection, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Wohin das Auge reicht - Neue Einblicke in die Sammlung Würth, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbische Hall, Germany
Hugo Claus, Con amore, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
2017
Tien topstukken on tour: Voor Nederland verworven dankzij de BankGiro Loterij, Mauritshuis Den Haag, The Netherlands
Elle était une fois - Acte II: la collection Sainte-Anne autour de 1950, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de l’Hôpital Sanite-Anne, Paris, France
2016
UN ART AUTRE: L’aventure de Michel Tapié, Galerie F. Hessler, Luxembourg
Postwar: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic, 1945 - 1965, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2015
I Got Rhythm. Kunst und Jazz seit 1920, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
Miró & Cobra. Experimenteel spel, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up. Cobra & Its Legacy, Blum & Poe, New York, USA
2014
International Exchanges: Modern Art and St Ives 1915 - 65, Tate St Ives, UK
From the Guggenheim Collection to the Cobra Museum Amstelveen. International Abstraction 1949 – 1960, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
2013
From Beckmann to Warhol. Art of the 20th and 21st Century - Collection Bayer, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Opening Exhbition, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2012
Passadena to Santa Barbara: A Selected History of Art in Southern California, 1951 – 1969, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949 - 1960, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2011
Klee und Cobra. Ein Kinderspiel, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Les Sujets de l’Abstraction, Peinture non-figurative de la Seconde École de Paris, 101 Chefs-d’oeuvre de la Fondation Gandur pour l’Art, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Postwar Abstract Painting in France and Art Informel, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Ishibashi Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Parijs - Stad van de moderne kunst 1900 - 1960, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2010
Le grand geste! Informel und Abstrakter Expressionismus 1946-1964, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009
Musée National d’Art Moderne: La collection permanente (de 1905 à nos jours), Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Paris Central. Vrije stad, vrije kunst in de jaren ’50’, Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Meisterwerke der Moderne: Die Sammlung Batliner, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions at the 1959 Inaugural, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2008
The Human Image in the Twentieth Century : From Picasso and Dali to Yokoo and Nara, Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art, Gunma, Japan
De Miró à Warhol. La Collection Berardo à Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, France
Action Painting, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Goya y el mundo moderno, Museo de Zaragoza, Spain
2007
Monet to Picasso - The Batliner Collection, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Collage/Collages from Cubism to New Dada, GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
2006
The Guggenheim Collection, Kunst-und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Pour revoir le monde: collection d’art moderne et contemporain des Abattoirs Toulouse, Fine Arts School, Chongqing, China
2005
Von Spitzweg bis Baselitz: Streifzüge durch die Sammlung Würth / From Spitzweg to Baselitz: Excursions to the Würth Collection, Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
2004
Encounters wModernism. Highlights from the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Shanghai Art Museum, China
Expressive Bildwelten: die Schenkungen Otto van de Loo, Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany Nordic Summer, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
2003
Expressiv!, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Papiers choisis, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
Up to now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Gogh Modern: Vincent van Gogh en de hedendaagse kunst, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Cobra in the Hermitage, Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Paris 1945 bis 1965, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
2002
Paris: Capital of the Arts, 1900 – 1968, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2001
Sonsbeek 9: Locus / Focus, Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2000
Le musée du XXe siècle de Michel Ragon 1950 - 2000, Hôtel du Département de la Vendée, La Roche-sur-Yon, France
About Collage, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
1999
Zeitschnitt 1900 – 2000, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Austria
A Rebours. La Rebelión Informalista 1939-1968, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain
1998
Rendezvous. Masterpieces from the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museums, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, UK
Ecole de Paris, Staatsmuseum, Luxembourg
Künstler der Gruppen COBRA und SPUR: Sammlung Selinka, Schloß Achberg, Ravensburg, Germany
1997
Cobra works from the collection of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Torino-Parigi-New York-Osaka: Tapié-Un art autre, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Cobra. Art expérimental 1948-1951, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Art of the 20th Century, Flemish and Dutch Painting. From Van Gogh, Ensor, Magritte, Mondrian to contemporary artists, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
1996
Después de Goya. Una mirada subjetiva, Palacio de la Lonja, Zaragoza, Spain
La dimension du corps 1920 – 1980, Le Musée National d’Art Moderne, Tokyo, Japan
Face à l’Histoire, 1933- 1996. L’artiste moderne face à l’événement historique, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Munch en na Munch: of de hardnekkigheid van schilders / Munch and after Munch: or the obstinacy of painters, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prospettiva del passato. Da Van Gogh ai contemporanei nelle raccolte dello Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
1995
Mit dem Auge des Kindes. Kinderzeichnung und moderne Kunst, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Passions Privées, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Views from Abroad. European Perspectives on American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Couplet 5 - Dansende Meisjes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Postwar Europe 1945-1965: Arts After the Deluge, Centro Cultural de la Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Autour d’une collection de Monsieur et Madame G. Pompidou, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France
Couplet 1, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Tghe Netherlands
New Displays 1994, Tate Gallery, London, UK
L’Art au Pays-Bas au XXe siècle, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1992
Automatismos Paralelos. La Europa de los Movimientos Experimentales 1944-1956, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
New Realities: Art in Western Europe 1945-1968, Tate Gallery Liverpool, UK
Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990): Images of Man, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
1991
Towards a New Museum: Highlights from the Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989
CoBrA. Eine europaische Bewegung, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
L’Europe des grandes maîtres: Quand ils etaient jeunes, 1870-1970, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France
1988
Les Années 50, Musée national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fondation Vincent Van Gogh – Arles. Naissance d’une collection 1985 – 1988, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France
1987
Beelden en Banieren, Fort Asperen, Acquoi, The Netherlands
L’Art en Europe. Les années décisives 1945-1953, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint Etienne, France
1986
Paris en quatre temps, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Bilder fra Inger og Andreas L. Riis’ samling, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
En compagnie de Michel Butor, Le Musée de Valence, France
1985
7th Cleveland International Drawing Biennale. Invited Artist: Karel Appel’, Cleveland County Museum, United Kingdom
Action et émotion. Peintures des années 50. Informel, Gutaï, Cobra, Musée national d'art, Osaka, Japan
100 Years of Dutch Painting. Highlights from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Niigata City Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1984
Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century, Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
La Grande Parade. Hoogtepunten van de schilderkunst na 1940 / Highlights in Painting after 1940, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Creation. Modern Art and Nature, The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
El movimiento Cobra en la colección Karel van Stuyvenberg, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
1983
Expressive Malerei nach Picasso, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
1982
Saône, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France
Appel et Alechinsky. Encres à deux pinceaux, peintures, etc., Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
CoBrA, 1948-1951, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1981
Avantgarden - Retrospectiv. Kunst nach 1945, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany Paris 1937 - Paris 1957: Créations en France, Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1980
Belgique - Pays-Bas. Points de rapprochement et parallèles dans l’art après 1945, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1974
Since 1945: vol. I, The World of Abstract Expression [works by 17 European and American Artists], Fuji Television Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
CoBrA and Contrasts, The Winston-Malbin Collection, The Detroit Institute of Arts, USA
1973
The Private Collection of Martha Jackson, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, USA
Primal Images: Appel, Calder, Dubuffet, Miró, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, USA
Selected works from the Asger Jorn collection, Silkeborg Kunstmuseum, Denmark
1971
Martha Jackson Gallery Collection, The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Stedelijk ’60-’70’, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Opere di Maestri Contemporanei Europei, Palazzo Internazionale delle Aste ed Esposizioni, Florence, Italy
The 31st Annual Works on Paper, Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1970
Trends in Twentieth Century Art. A Loan from the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Art Galleries, University of California USA
1969
Contemporary Portraits, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Appel – Lucebert –Tajiri, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Art présent, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1968
Painting in France 1900 – 1967, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
L’art vivant 1965 – 1968, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
Peintres Européens d’aujourd’hui, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, France
1967
Campo vitale, Il Centro Internazionale della Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
ROSC ’67. The Poetry of Vision. An International Exhibition of modern Painting and ancient Celtic Art, Royal Dublin Society, Ireland
1966
Kontraste. Vier Möglichkeiten des Künstlerischen. Josef Albers, Karel Appel, Max Ernst, Robert Rauschenberg, Overbeck - Gesellschaft Lübeck, Germany
Four European Artists and the Figure, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1965
Imagadventure, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Colorists 1950 – 1965, San Francisco Museum of Art, USA
Moderne Nederlandsk Maleri, Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway
Un groupe 1965, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
40 Key Artists of the Mid-20th Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, USA
1964
Documenta III, Kassel, Germany
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade 54 - 64, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Van Gogh and Expressionism, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Karel Appel, Jaap Mooy, Lucebert, Dutch Pavillion, XXXII Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, Italy
Neue Realisten & Pop Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1963
Visione Colore, Il Centro Internazionale della Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Ve Salon. Grands et jeunes d'aujourd'hui, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
The Dunn International, an exhibition of contemporary painting, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Fredericton, Canada
Schrift en beeld, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
20th century Master Drawings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1962
Nederlands bijdrage tot de internationale ontwikkeling sedert 1945, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pioniers. 50 Meesterwerken / Masterpieces, from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Curaçao’s Museum, Willemstad, Curacao
Art since 1950. American and International, Seattle World’s Fair, USA
1960
Famous Likeness, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Trends in Dutch Painting since Van Gogh, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, USA
Jonge Kunst uit de collectie Dotremont - Brussel, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
XVIIe Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam besöker Moderna Museet Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Antagonismes, Musée des Arts Décoratifs - Palais du Louvre - Pavillon de Marsan, Paris
A selection from the Margulies Collection. New paintings from Paris, The Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
Polariteit. Het appolinische en het dionysische in de kunst, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Keerpunten in de Nederlandse Schilderkunst 1920 - 1960, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Neue Malerei. Form Struktur Bedeutung, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
1959
Actualités. Contemporary Watercolours and Gouaches by Appel, Bluhm, Davie, Dubuffet, Francis, Jorn, Mathieu, Michaux, Riopelle, Stubbing, Wemaere, Wols, Wolvecamp, Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, London, UK
Twenty Contemporary Painters from the Phillipe Dotremont Collection, Brussels, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Premio dell’Ariete. 20 Quadri 1959, Selezione biennale di pittura internazional, Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy
II. documenta, Kassel, Germany
V Bienal de São Paolo, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
Appel, Mathieu, Moreni, Riopelle, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
School of Paris 1959: The Internationals, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
IIIe exposition internationale de gravure, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vitalità nell’Arte, Il Centro Internazionale della Arti e del Costume, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Inaugural Selection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Paintings from the Stedelijk Museum, Milwakee Art Center, USA
Arte Nuova. Mostra internazionale di pittura e scultura, Palazzo Graneri, Turin, Italy
L’École de Paris dans les collections belges, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
New Images of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1958
The international art of a new era (informel and gutai), Osaka International Festival, Japan Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles 1958. 50 Ans d’Art Moderne, Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
L’Art Hollandais depuis Van Gogh, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
Trends in Contemporary Dutch Art, The Arts Council, London, UK
1957
An exhibition of paintings from The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York’, Tate Gallery, London, UK
Younger Europeans, J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA
Recent French Acquisitions, Kootz Gallery, New York, USA
X Premio Lissone internazionale per la pittura, Lissone, Italy
Biennale 57. Jeune peinture, jeune sculpture, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, France
1956
New Trends in Painting, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, UK
Modern Dutch Art 1945-1955, The Toledo Museum of Art, USA
1955
The New Decade. 22 European Painters and Sculptors, Los Angeles County Museum, USA
The New Decade. 22 European Painters and Sculptors, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Expressionism 1900-1955, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
The New Decade. 22 European Painters and Sculptors, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, USA Expressionism 1900-1955, San Francisco Museum of Art, USA
1954
Caratteri della pittura d’oggi, Galleria di Spazio, Rome, Italy
Il segno e la parola, Libreria Schwarz, Milan, Italy
Individualités d’aujourd’hui, Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, France
Olanda, The Dutch Pavillion of the XXVII Biennale di Venezia, Italy
Ceramiche. Incontro Internazionale di Albisola, Decima Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1953
Younger European Painters, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
II Bienal, Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brasil
1952
Peintures Non-Abstraites, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
The 1952 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA
Un Art Autre, Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris, France
1951
IIe Exposition Internationale d’Art Experimental, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium
CoBrA, Librairie 73, Paris, France
Exposition de 5 peintres de CoBrA. Appel, Balle Corneille, E. Jacobsen, Jorn, Galerie Pierre, Paris, France
1949
De Experimentele Groep in Holland, Kunstzaal Van Lier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ve Salon de Mai, Palais de New-York, Paris, France
CoBrA, Séminaire des Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Exposition Internationale d’Art Expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Appel, Constant, Corneille, Galerie Colette Allendy, Paris, France
Ons huis, ons thuis. Nieuwe meubelen, De Bijenkorf, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1948
Karel Appel, Corneille, Constant Nieuwenhuijs, Kunsthandel Santee Landweer N.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Werken van Appel, Corneille, Constant, Kunstzaal Van Lier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Amsterdamse schilders van nu, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Høstudstillingen 1948, Den Frie Udstillings Bygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
1947
Karel Appel en Corneille, Gildehuys, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1946
Jonge Schilders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice, Italy
Danubiana – Muelensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Fondation Van Gogh, Arles, France
FRAC – Provence-Alpes-Côtes d’Azur, Marseille, France
GAM - Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Hofstra Museum at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, USA
IVAM, Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Kunsthalle in Emden, Stiftung Henri und Eske Nannen und Schenkung Otto van de Loo, Emden, Germany
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
LAAC – Lieu d’Art et Action Contemporaine de Dunkerque, France
Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
Les Abattoires - Centre d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark
MAMAC - Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liege, Belgium
MASP - Museo de Arte de São Paolo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paolo, Brazil
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal / The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
MAMAC - Musée National d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museo de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
Museum Würth , ünzelsau, Germany
National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
National Museum of Art , Osaka, Japan
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Phoenix Art Museum, USA
Pinakothek der Moderne – Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
R. & H. Batliner Art Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Rose Art Museum, Waltham, USA
S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Sammlung Essl, Klosterburg, Austria
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, USA
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam,The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, The Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israël
The Berardo Collection Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., USA
Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK
University at Buffalo Art Galleries, Buffalo, USA
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
PUBLICATIONS
Karel APPEL, Océan blessé, trad. de l'anglais par M.-C. White et du néerlandais par J. Noble, coll. Écritures-Figures, Galilée, Paris, 1982
Karel APPEL, Frédéric de TOWARNICKI & André VERDET, Propos en liberté, 1974-1984, coll. Écritures-Figures, Galilée, 1985
Peter BERGER, Écrits sur Karel Appel, trad. du néerlandais par P. Noble, coll. Proche peinture, Galilée, 1983
Rudi FUCHS, Johannes GACHNANG & Donald KUSPIT, Karel Appel, l'art psychopathologique. Dessins et gouaches 1948-1950, Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, 2003 (éd. or. 1997)
Jean Clarence LAMBERT, Karel Appel. Œuvres sur papier, Préface de Marshall McLuhan, Cercle d'Art, Paris, 1988
Michel RAGON, Karel Appel : de Cobra à un art autre, 1948-1957, coll. Débats, Galilé, 1988
Pierre RESTANY, Street Art : le second souffle de Karel Appel, coll. Écritures-Figures, Galilée, 1983.