Selected bibliography | Karel Appel Foundation

Year	Author	Title	Source	Details	Type Sort descending
2016	Ottmann, Klaus	Karel Appel. A Gesture of Color. Paintings and Sculptures, 1947-2004		exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2016	Catalogue
1996	Fuchs, Rudi	Karel Appel: Variazioni sul tema		with text by Rudi Fuchs (transcript/excerpt of radio broadcast from 1995), exh. cat. Fondazione Ambrosetti Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy, 1996	Catalogue
2006	Heymer, Kay	The Guggenheim. Die Sammlung		with texts by Kay Heymer et al., exh. cat. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Kunstmuseum Bonn, 2006	Catalogue
1990	Appel, Karel & Claus, Hugo & Fuchs, Rudi & Hunter, Sam & Lucebert & Kaiser, Franz-W.	Ik wou dat Ik een Vogel was (If I were a bird)		with texts by Karel Appel (reprint from 1971), Hugo Claus (reprint from 1962), Rudi Fuchs, Sam Hunter (reprint from 1986), Lucebert (reprints from 1960 and 1965), Franz-W. Kaiser, exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 1990 & Josef Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne & Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona	Catalogue
1974	Sandberg, Willem	CoBrA and Contrasts, The Winston-Malbin Collection		with text by Willem Sandberg, exh. cat. The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1974	Catalogue
2016	Kaiser, Franz-W. & Lotz, Rouven	Karel Appel. Der abstrakte Blick		exh. cat. Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, Germany, 2016	Catalogue
1949		Cobra: organe du front international des artistes expérimentaux d'avant-garde, # 4		edition: Experimentele Groep in Holland, used as exh. cat. for Exposition Internationale d’Art Expérimental, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1949	Catalogue
1963	Schierbeek, Bert	Appel Nudes		exh. cat. Gimpel and Hanover Galerie Zürich, 1963 & Galerie Europe, Paris & Gimpel Fils, London & Martha Jackson Gallery, New York	Catalogue
1996	Baum, Peter & Kaiser, Franz-W.	Karel Appel. Gemälde, Gouachen, Zeichnungen 1950-1965		with texts by Peter Baum, Franz-W. Kaiser (transcript of speech from 1994), exh. cat. BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, 1996	Catalogue
2006	Sailer, John	Karel Appel: Last Paintings		exh. cat Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2006	Catalogue
1958	Ragon, Michel	Appel: Gouaches et céramiques		exh. cat. Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1958	Catalogue
2001	Ragon, Michel	Karel Appel: Sag zum Abschied leise Servus		exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2001	Catalogue
2016	Kaiser, Franz-W.	Karel Appel. Paintings from Six Decades		with foreword by Gabriele Wimmer & John Sailer, texts by Rudi Fuchs, Donald Kuspit, exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2016.	Catalogue
1963		Karel Appel: Selezione di dipinti dal 1950 al 1961		exh. cat. La Medusa, Rome, 1963	Catalogue
1958	Sandberg, Willem	Karel Appel		exh. cat. Galerie Änne Abels, Cologne, 1958	Catalogue
1975	Read, Herbert	Appel: Paintings		with text by Herbert Read (excerpt from 1962), interview with Karel Appel by Alan Hanlon and Richard Graburn (excerpt from 1972), exh. cat. Wildenstein, London, 1975	Catalogue
2001	Kaiser, Franz-W.	Karel Appel: Beelden 1936–2000		with text by Franz-W. Kaiser (excerpt from 1998), exh. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands	Catalogue
2017	Kaiser, Franz-W. & Kazarian, Choghakate & Mason, Rainer Michael & Montfort, Anne & Ottmann, Klaus & Schlesser, Thomas & Stoullig, Claire	Karel Appel		with foreword by Fabrice Hergott, exh. cat. Karel Appel. L'art est une fête ! Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris	Catalogue
2001	Fuchs, Rudi & Gachnang, Johannes	Karel Appel, Pastorale Chiaroscuro		with texts by Rudi Fuchs (reworked text from 1995), Johannes Gachnang and letter by Jean Frémon, exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 2001	Catalogue
1976	Redeker, Hans	Karel Appel: schilderijen, gouaches, acryls, keramische beelden 1950–1975		exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1976	Catalogue
2001	Hofland, H. J. A. & Josephus-Jitta, Mariette & Kaiser, Franz-W.	Karel Appel: Werk op papier		with foreword by Wim van Krimpen and texts by H. J. A. Hofland, Mariette Josephus-Jitta (reworked text from 1982), Franz-W. Kaiser, exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 2001	Catalogue
2019	Kaiser, Franz-W.	Karel Appel dans la France glorieuse		exh. cat. Figures et paysages, Almine Rech, Paris, 2019	Catalogue
1951		Cobra, Revue international de l’art experimental		# 10 (autumn 1951), used as exh. cat. for IIe Exposition	Catalogue
2009	Belt, Werner van den & Weitering, Katja	Paris Central. Vrije stad, vrije kunst in de jaren ’50		with introduction by Jan Hein Sassen and texts by Werner van den Belt, Katja Weitering et al., exh. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands	Catalogue
1976		Editie “collection d’art”		year 8, # 4 (1976), with introduction by A. M. Hammacher, used as exh. cat. for Collection d'Art, Amsterdam, 1976	Catalogue
2001	Steininger, Florian	Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten		exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001	Catalogue
1981	Honnef, Klaus	Appel		with text by Klaus Honnef (reprint from exh. cat. Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven), exh. cat. Museu de Arte do São Paulo, 1981	Catalogue
1951		Internationale d’ Art Experimental		Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium, 1951	Catalogue
1997	Appel, Karel & McCormick, Carlo	Karel Appel: Unintended Monuments		with texts by Karel Appel and Carlo McCormick (reprint from 1990), exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 1997	Catalogue
1981	Reinhartz-Tergau, Elisabeth	Karel Appel: tentoonstelling t.g.v. zijn 60-ste verjaardag,		exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1981	Catalogue
2021	Fuchs, Rudi	Distance Closer / Verte naderbij		exh. cat. Horizon of Tuscany, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021	Catalogue
2007	Kaiser, Franz-W.	Appels Akte		exh. cat. Karel Appel. Monumentale Zeichnungen, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2007, with foreword by Klaus Albrecht Schröder; translated from German to English by Andrew Boreham, September 2021 as “Appel’s Nudes”	Catalogue
2010		Karel Appel: Paintings from five decades		with text by Karel Appel (reprint from 1977), exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2010	Catalogue
1959	Marinotti, Paolo	Dipingere coi tessuti		exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959	Catalogue
1995		Karel Appel: Sculpture		with introduction by David Anderson and Reine Hauser, exh. cat. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, 1995	Catalogue
1959	Marinotti, Paolo & Michaux, Henri & Sandberg, Willem	Vitalità nell'Arte		exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 & Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam	Catalogue
1995	Fineberg, Jonathan	Mit dem Auge des Kindes		exh. cat. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich & Kunstmuseum, Bern, 1995. Co-published as The Innocent Eye, Princeton University Press, 1997	Catalogue
1964	Read, Herbert	Appel		exh. cat. American Art Gallery, Copenhagen	Catalogue
1959	Neuburg, Hans	Karel Appel		exh. cat. Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959	Catalogue
1977	Rodriguez, Antonio	Karel Appel		with text by Antonio Rodriguez and interview by Alan Hanlon and Richard Graburn (reprint from 1972), exh. cat. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 1977 & Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas	Catalogue
1995	Gachnang, Johannes	Karel Appel, Toskanischer Horizont		exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 1995	Catalogue
2002	Ragon, Michel	Karel Appel: Japanese Landscapes		with text by Michel Ragon (reprint from 2001), exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 2002	Catalogue
2021	Kaiser, Franz-W.	Polaroid Series		exh. cat. Karel Appel: Life-Size and larger, Eenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021	Catalogue
1953	Claus, Hugo & Tapié, Michel	Karel Appel	Palais des Beaux-Arts	exh. cat. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1953	Catalogue
2008	Sassen, Jan Hein	Karel Appel. Jazz 1958 – 1962		with foreword by John Vrieze, exh. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, The Netherlands, 2008	Catalogue
1959	Tillich, Paul	New images of man		with prefatory note by Peter Selz and text by Paul Tillich, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959	Catalogue
1995	Fuchs, Rudi & Rohsmann, Arnulf & Zigaina, Guiseppe	Karel Appel: Ich bin die Erde der alles entspringt		exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, Austria & Kärntner Landesgalerie Klagenfurt, Austria, 1995 & Moderna Galerija Ljubljana	Catalogue
2002	Brugger, Ingried & Fuchs, Rudi & Kaiser, Franz-W. & Steininger, Florian	Karel Appel		with texts by Ingried Brugger, Rudi Fuchs, Franz-W. Kaiser (reprint from 2001), Florian Steininger, exh. cat. Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, 2002	Catalogue
2021	Fuchs, Rudi	By Karel Appel, a Work in Fragments		exh. cat. Karel Appel: Life-Size and larger, Eenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021	Catalogue
1953	Sweeney, James Johnson	Younger European painters		exh. cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1953	Catalogue