Selected bibliography | Karel Appel Foundation

Year	Author	Title	Details	Type
1960	Looten, Emmanuel	Karel Appel	exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1960	Catalogue
1977	Jespersen, Gunnar	Karel Appel, Cobra	Gyldendal, Copenhagen, 1974, pp. 129-132	Article
1986	Dotremont, Christian	De kleurige onbekende	with poems by Karel Appel and text by Christian Dotremont (excerpt of letter from 1967), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1986	Monograph
1997	Fuchs, Rudi & Gachnang, Johannes & Kuspit, Donald	Karel Appel: Psychopathologisches Notizbuch. Zeichnungen und Gouachen 1948-1950	Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1997. Co-published as Karel Appel: Art psychopathologique. Carnet 1948-1950. Dessins et gouaches, Editions Ides et Calendes, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 1997	Monograph
2013	Stokvis, Willemijn	Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit!	exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013	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
1960	Sawyer, Kenneth B.	Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches	exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960	Catalogue
1986	Hunter, Sam	Karel Appel: Recent Paintings	exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1986	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
2007	Hartog Jager, Hans den	Karel Appel in Essentie	Athaneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2007	Monograph
1965	Geirlandt, Karel	Karel Appel: Vliegende Man, 1958	Openbaar kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 1965	Article
2013	Lehmann-Brockhaus, Ursula	Karel Appel	Incontro internazionale della ceramica, Albisola, Sommer 1954. Appel, Baj, Corneille, Dangelo, Jorn, Matta in der Werkstatt Mazzotti Giuseppe, Campisano Editore, Rome, 2013, pp. 21-45; 171-180	Article
1994	Miller, Richard	Christian Karel Appel	Cobra, Nouvelles Editions Francaises, Paris, 1994, pp. 134-136	Article
2001	Steininger, Florian	Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten	exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001	Catalogue
1960	Neuburg, Hans & Ragon, Michel	Karel Appel	with texts by Hans Neuburg (preprint from 1959), Michel Ragon (reprint from 1958), exh. cat. Galleria Lorenzelli, Bergamo, Italy, 1960	Catalogue
1986	Beeren, Wim & Hunter, Sam	Recent Paintings and Sculpture; Clouds, Windmill, Nudes and Other Mythologies	with texts by Wim Beeren, Sam Hunter (reworked text from exh. cat. Marisa del Re, 1986), exh. cat. Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 1986	Catalogue
1997	Fuchs, Rudi	L’antica storia dell’arte moderna	Art of the 20th Century. Flemish and Dutch Painting, Rizzoli, New York, 1997	Article
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
1954	Doelman, Cornelis	Olanda	exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954	Catalogue
2014	Gingeras, Alison	Karel Appel	exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014	Catalogue
1994	Kaiser, Franz-W.	A Description of an Artistic Position	(speech at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), September 18, 1994 (unpublished)	Miscellanious
1978	Wingen, Ed	Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel	with text by Ed Wingen (reprint from 1977), exh. cat. Saarland Museum, Saarbrücken, Germany, 1978 & Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn & Kunsthalle, Wilhelmshaven, Germany	Catalogue
1986	Martin, Rupert & Verdet, André	Karel Appel: paintings 1980-85	with foreword by Alan Bowness and texts by Rupert Martin, André Verdet (reprint of interview from 1985), exh. cat. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, 1986 & Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin	Catalogue
1954	Tapié, Michel	Appel	exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954	Catalogue
1983	Vree, Freddy de	Karel Appel	Kunstpocket # 16, Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium, 1983	Monograph
1995		Karel Appel: Sculpture	with introduction by David Anderson and Reine Hauser, exh. cat. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, 1995	Catalogue
1978	Dypreau, Jean	Karel Appel. Peintures et sculptures	exh. cat. Fondation Chateau de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France, 1978	Catalogue
1991	Lahusen, Margarita	Karel Appel, Portrait Emmanuel Looten 1956	Kleine Werkmonographie 78, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1991	Article
1997	Daix, Pierre	Karel Appel. L'Art psychopathologique	Les Arts et les Gens (radio broadcast for France Culture, Paris), September 1, 1997	Miscellanious
2007	Jacobs, Katrien	Het postverkeer tussen Machelen-aan-de-Leie en…	Hugo Claus, Roger Raveel. Brieven 1947-1962, Ludion, Antwerpen, 2007, pp. 7-30	Article
1954	Tapié, Michel	Karel Appel: First American Exhibition	with text by Michel Tapié (reprint from exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, 1954), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1954	Catalogue
2015	Gingeras, Alison & Godet, Marie & Laugharn, Fiona	The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up. Cobra & Its Legacy	exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2015	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
2001	Stokvis, Willemijn	COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit	COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001	Miscellanious
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
1998	Lyotard, Jean-François	Karel Appel, ein Farbgestus	(includes reprint from 1989), Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1998	Monograph
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
1967	Sandberg, Willem	Karel Appel	with text by Willem Sandberg (excerpt from 1961), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1967	Catalogue
2015	Kaiser, Franz-W. & Lemonnier, Anne & Strobl, Andreas	Karel Appel. Works on paper	with introduction by Jonas Storsve, exh. cat. Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2015 & Staatliche Sammlung München – Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich	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
1961	Lucebert	Karel Appel	with text by Lucebert (first publication of text from 1950 and excerpt of poem from 1960), exh. cat. Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands & Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, 1961	Catalogue
1978		Appel & Alechinsky. Encres a deux pinceaux	with foreword by Christian Dotremont and poems by Hugo Claus, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1978. Co-published as Zwart, Landshoff, Bentveld-Aerdenhout, 1978 and as Appel & Alechinsky. Two-brush paintings, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1980	Miscellanious
1961	Sandberg, Willem	Karel Appel: West Coast Exhibiton	exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961	Catalogue
1978	Fuchs, Rudi	Dutch Painting	Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1978, pp. 193, 195	Miscellanious
1998	Fuchs, Rudi	Karel Appel: Birth of a Landscape	with text by Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1995), exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 1998	Catalogue
2008	Cerritelli, Claudio	Karel Appel: Opere 1990–2002	exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2008	Catalogue
1967	Dotremont, Christian	Lettre à Karel Appel, le 10 mars, 1967	1967 (unpublished)	Miscellanious
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