Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source Sort descending | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | Bandini, Mireille | Situationism. The Situationist Utopia | in Achille Bonito Oliva, Art Tribes, Skira, Milan, 2002 | Article | |
| 1991 | Lahusen, Margarita | Karel Appel, Portrait Emmanuel Looten 1956 | Kleine Werkmonographie 78, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 | Article | |
| 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 | |
| 1998 | Bonito Oliva, Achille | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, 1998 |
Catalogue | |
| 2008 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel – tekenaar | August 2008 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1962 | Claus, Hugo | Karel Appel Painter | with foreword by Herbert Read, text by Hugo Claus, poem by Lucebert (reprint from 1960) and by Willem Sandberg, A. J. G. Strengholt, Amsterdam, 1962 |
Monograph | |
| 1980 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Works on Paper | with foreword by Marshall McLuhan and text by Jean-Clarence Lambert (reprint from 1978), Abbeville Press, New York, 1980 |
Monograph | |
| 1991 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | La voie de la main gauche | Le règne Imaginal, part 1 and 2. Éditions Cercle d'Art, Paris, series «Diagonales», 1991, pp. 115-140 (reprint from 1978) | Article | |
| 2008 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Cobra 1948 - 1951. Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven | Waanders, Zwolle, 2008 | Miscellanious | |
| 1962 | Gribaudo, Ezio & Sandberg, Willem | Le sculture di Karel Appel | with texts by Ezio Gribaudo and Willem Sandberg (reprint of poem from 1962), Edizione d’Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Turin, 1962 |
Monograph | |
| 2002 | Fuchs, Rudi | Tussen kunstenaars. Een romance | (includes reprints from 1990 and 1996), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2002 | Miscellanious | |
| 2019 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel dans la France glorieuse | exh. cat. Figures et paysages, Almine Rech, Paris, 2019 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Dotremont, Christian & Read, Herbert | Paintings: Karel Appel | with introduction by Christian Dotremont and preface by Herbert Read, exh. cat. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1983 | Ginsberg, Allen & Mason, Marilynne | Karel Appel's Inner Lights | (interview), Northern Lights, Studies in Creativity, University of Maine at Presque Isle, Maine, 1983 |
Article | |
| 1989 | Appel, Karel & Bowness, Alan & Dotremont, Christian | Dupe of Being | with texts/reprints by Karel Appel, Alan Bowness, Christian Dotremont and many others, Edition Lafayette, New York, 1989 |
Monograph | |
| 2009 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur / Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour | Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2009 | Monograph | |
| 1962 | Vrijman, Jan & Sandberg, Willem | De Werkelijkheid van Karel Appel | with texts by Jan Vrijman and Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1961), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1962 |
Monograph | |
| 2003 | Obrist, Hans Ulrich | Taken from a previously unpublished conversation with Karel Appel | Biennale di Ceramica nell’ arte contemporanea, Attese, Milan, 2003, pp. 43-45 | Article | |
| 2019 | Meulemans, Naomi | VOGEL. Karel Appel (1921-2006) en de mythe van het spontane maken | The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerpen, 2019 |
Monograph | |
| 1957 | Moreni, Mattia | Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Stadler, Paris, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1971 | Appel, Karel & Alvard, Julien & Boudaille, George & Claus, Hugo & Dotremont, Christian & Vrijman, Jan | Karel Appel over Karel Appel | Triton Pers, Amsterdam, 1971 |
Monograph | |
| 1989 | Hunter, Sam & Kuspit, Donald & Lyotard, Jean-Francois & Ragon, Michel & Wilde, Edy, de | Appel | with texts by Sam Hunter (reprint from 1986), Donald Kuspit, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Ragon, Edy de Wilde, exh. cat. The National Museum of Art, Osaka & The Seibu Museum, Tokyo, 1989 & The Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo & Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts & Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art & Hakone Open Air Museum, Ninotaira |
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 | |
| 1962 | Lucebert, Oxenaar, R. D. W. & Schierbeek, Bert | Karel Appel | with texts by Lucebert (reprint from 1950), R. W. D. Oxenaar, Bert Schierbeek, exh. cat. Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne, 1962 |
Catalogue | |
| 1986 | Stokvis, Willemijn | De Nederlanse bijdrage aan de Cobra-beweging en vervanten in schilder- en beeledhouwkunst | De Nederlandse identiteit in de kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum & Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam, 1986, pp. 18-61 | Article | |
| 2021 | Fuchs, Rudi | Distance Closer / Verte naderbij | exh. cat. Horizon of Tuscany, Slewe Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Sandberg, Willem | Appel | with text by Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1956), exh. cat. Galleria La Tartaruga, Rome, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1971 | Andrésen, Georg | Karel Appel |
exh. cat. Galerie Moderne, Silkeborg, Denmark |
Catalogue | |
| 2009 | Kuspit, Donald | Titanic Power: Karel Appel in the Tradition of the New | April 2009 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1962 | Karel Appel: Sculptures | with poem by Willem Sandberg, exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1962 | Catalogue | ||
| 2004 | Fuchs, Rudi & Lambrecht, Luk | Karel Appel. Onderweg. Reis van Rudi Fuchs langs de kunst der lage landen | exh. cat. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 2004 |
Catalogue | |
| 1987 | Claus, Hugo & Dotremont, Christian & Lambert, Jean-Clarence & Looten, Emmanuel & Lucebert & Tapíe, Michel & Towarnicki, Frédéric, de | Karel Appel 40 Ans de Peinture, Sculpture & Dessin | with multiple texts/reprints by Hugo Claus, Christian Dotremont, Jeanc-Clarence Lambert, Emmanuel Looten, Lucebert, Michel Tapié, Frédéric de Towarnicki and many others, Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1987 |
Monograph | |
| 2021 | Seligmann, Nadine | Mangeur d'annonces: Between a Reveling in Materials and Painting | Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich |
Monograph | |
| 1957 | Read, Herbert | Appel: New paintings | with preface by Herbert Read (reprint from exh. cat. Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1957), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1957 |
Catalogue | |
| 1983 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Cobra | Ste Nlle des Editions du Chêne, Paris and Fonds Mercator, Antwerp, 1983. Co-published by Abbeville Press, Inc, New York, 1983 |
Miscellanious | |
| 2010 | Karel Appel: Paintings from five decades | with text by Karel Appel (reprint from 1977), exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2010 | Catalogue | ||
| 1987 | Beeren, Wim & Claus, Hugo & Hunter, Sam & Martin, Rupert | Karel Appel Dipinti, Sculpture e Collagi | with foreword by Rudi Fuchs, texts by Wim Beeren (reprint from 1982), Hugo Claus (reprint from 1962), Sam Hunter (reprint from 1986), Rupert Martin (reprint from exh. cat. Arnolfini Gallery, 1986), exh. cat. Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 1987 |
Catalogue | |
| 1972 | Hanlon, Arthur & Graburn, Richard & Rombout, Luke | Appel's Appels | with interview by Alan Hanlon and Richard Graburn and text by Luke Rombout, exh. cat. Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, 1972 |
Catalogue | |
| 1999 | Fuchs, Rudi & Gachnang, Johannes & Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Psychopathological Notebook | Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1999 |
Monograph | |
| 1984 | Geirlandt, Karel & Vree, Freddy de | Karel Appel: Recent werk / oeuvres récentes / 1980–1983 | with texts by Karel Geirlandt, Freddy de Vree (excerpt from 1983), exh. cat. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1984 |
Catalogue | |
| 1963 | Gribaudo, Ezio & Sandberg, Willem | The Sculpture of Karel Appel | with texts by Ezio Gribaudo and Willem Sandberg (reprint of poem from 1962), Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York, 1963 |
Monograph | |
| 1987 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1987 |
Catalogue | |
| 1992 | Wilson, Sarah | Parallel Visions. Modern Artists and Outsider Art | with texts by Sarah Wilson et al., exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1992 & Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid & Kunsthalle Basel & Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
Catalogue | |
| 2021 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Polaroid Series | exh. cat. Karel Appel: Life-Size and larger, Eenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021 |
Catalogue | |
| 1992 | Schug, Albert | Die Kunst unseres Jahrhunderts | Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, 1992, pp. 153, 212, 296 | Article | |
| 1999 | Hovdenakk, Per & Kvaran, Gunnar B. | Toys from the Attic | exh. cat. Bergen Museum of Art, Norway, 1999 |
Catalogue | |
| 1984 | Jónsdóttir, Selma & Meijer, Ischa | Karel Appel | with texts by Selma Jónsdóttir, Ischa Meijer (reprint from April 1984), Listasafn, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1984 |
Catalogue | |
| 1963 | Vinkenoog, Simon | Het verhaal van Karel Appel. Een Proeve van Waarneming | A.W. Bruna & Zoon, Utrecht, 1963 | Monograph | |
| 2021 | Fuchs, Rudi | By Karel Appel, a Work in Fragments | exh. cat. Karel Appel: Life-Size and larger, Eenwerk Gallery, Amsterdam, 2021 |
Catalogue | |
| 1957 | Rouve, Pierre | Of Appel and Tradition | Art News and Review (April 1957) | Article |