Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Cariou, André | De Miró à Warhol. La collection Berardo à Paris | with text by André Cariou et al., exh. cat. Musée Luxembourg, Paris, 2008 |
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| 2008 | Read, Herbert | Karel Appel: The Sixties | with text by Herbert Read (reprint from 1962), exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2008 |
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| 2008 | McCormick, Carlo | Karel Appel Reconsidered | Paperback, issue 2, 2008, p. 87-89 | Article | |
| 2008 | Wijnberg, Louise | Watergevoelige olieverfschilderijen: werkwijze van Jasper Johns en Karel Appel | kM: materiaaltechnische informatie over beeldende kunst | # 66, 2008 |
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| 2008 | Zwagerman, Joost | Karel Appel | 50 Nudes: een privé collectie onthuld, Veenmann Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008, pp. 112-117 | Article | |
| 2008 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel – tekenaar | August 2008 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2007 | Hartog Jager, Hans den | Karel Appel in Essentie | Athaneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2007 | Monograph | |
| 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” |
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| 2007 | Donkers, Jan | Liever een Karel Appel Museum | Het Parool | February 14, 2007 | Article |
| 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 | |
| 2006 | Burnstock, Aviva | “An Investigation of Water-Sensitive Oil Paints in Twentieth-Century Paintings | Modern Paints Uncovered | London, Tate Modern, 2006, pp. 177-187 |
Article |
| 2006 | Fuchs, Rudi | Hemelpost | HP/De Tijd | December 22, 2006, p. 144 | Article |
| 2006 | Imanse, Geurt | Karel Appel | Stedelijk Museum Bulletin | # 3, 2006 | Article |
| 2006 | Redl, Thomas | Jenseits der Vergänglichkeit: Karel Appels letzte Bilder | ST/A/R | Wien, # 12/2006, p. 7 |
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| 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 |
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| 2006 | Sailer, John | Karel Appel: Last Paintings | exh. cat Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2006 |
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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel. Opere 1991 – 2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2005 |
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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi & Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Retrospective 1945 – 2005 | with texts by Rudi Fuchs (reprints from 1990 and 1995), Florian Steininger (reprint from 2002), exh. cat. Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, 2005 |
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| 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 |
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| 2004 | Braet, Jan | Het paradijs is nu | Knack | (interview with Rudi Fuchs and Karel Appel), # 41, October 6, 2004, pp. 124–128 |
Article |
| 2004 | Camps, Hugo | Hugo Camps in gesprek met schilder Karel Appel | Elsevier | (interview), # 44, October 30, 2004, pp. 42-44 | Article |
| 2004 | Dumont, Benoît | Karel Appel, peintre au regard toujours neuf | Fortis Tribune | # 17 (September 2004), p. 16 | Article |
| 2004 | Gollin, Rob | In het Paleis stoten schilderijen elkaar wakker | de Volkskrant | art section, October 14, 2004, pp. 16-17 | Article |
| 2004 | Hove, Jan van | Karel Appel over Vlaanderen, Rembrandt en de angst van de wereld | De Standaard | (interview), October 13, 2004, p. 25 | Article |
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | The decline of the cult of the unconscious: running on empty | The End of Art, Camebridge, 2004, pp. 89-142 | Article | |
| 2004 | Monnin, Francoise | Karel Appel, un bricoleur artiste | Connaisance des Arts | # 621 (November 2004), pp. 52 – 59 | Article |
| 2004 | Pietrzak, Brigitte & Villemur, Frédérique | L’Expérience matiériste | Paul Facchetti: Le studio. Art informel at abstraction Lyrique, Actes Sud, Arles (Bouches-du-Rhône), 2004, pp. 56-85 |
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| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Mad Artist | (lecture at the Dutch Embassy in Washington), April 27, 2004 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2004 | Roodenburg-Schadd, Caroline | Expressie en ordening. Het verzamelbeleid van Willem Sandberg voor het Stedelijk Museum 1945-1962 | NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam, 2004 | Miscellanious | |
| 2003 | Wijnberg, Louise | Plafondbetengeling wordt museumstuk: Femme, Enfants, Animaux van Karel Appel | kM: materiaaltechnische informatie over beeldende kunst | # 47 (autumn 2003), pp. 49-51 |
Article |
| 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 | |
| 2002 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel: Japanese Landscapes | with text by Michel Ragon (reprint from 2001), exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 2002 |
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| 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 |
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| 2002 | Annibali, Manuela | Karel Appel. La rage dans la couleur | Firma | Magazine de Diners Club Italia, # 10 (December 2002) | Article |
| 2002 | Daum, Pierre | Je puisse mes images dans l’infinie richesse que m’offre la matière | La liberation | October 26/27, 2002, pp. 40-41 | Article |
| 2002 | Bandini, Mireille | Situationism. The Situationist Utopia | in Achille Bonito Oliva, Art Tribes, Skira, Milan, 2002 | Article | |
| 2002 | Schumacher, Rogier | Karel Appel, z.t., 1970 | Beelden in Rotterdam | Uitgeverij 010, Rotterdam, 2002, pp. 124-125 |
Article |
| 2002 | Fuchs, Rudi | Tussen kunstenaars. Een romance | (includes reprints from 1990 and 1996), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2002 | Miscellanious | |
| 2001 | Ragon, Michel | Karel Appel: Sag zum Abschied leise Servus | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 2001 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2001 | Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten | exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001 |
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| 2001 | Schumacher, Rogier | Karel Appel: Pastorale Chiaroscuro | Bulletin Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | # 3, 2001 | Article |
| 2001 | Schweighöfer, Kerstin | Der Maler, der die Leinwand stürmte | ART das Kunstmagazin | # 4 (April 2001) | Article |
| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 2000 | Appel, Karel | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten. Ich bin der Planet. Du bist der Planet. Wir sind die Planeten. Gedichte aus den Jahren 1941-1996 | Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 2000 | Monograph | |
| 2000 | Houts, Cathérine van | Karel Appel. De Biografie | Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 2000 | Monograph | |
| 2000 | Fuchs, Rudi & Dosogne, Ludo | Karel Appel | with text by Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1996) and interview by Ludo Dosogne, exh. cat. Galerie Kusseneers, Lier, Belgium |
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| 2000 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Recente sculpturen & gedichten | with text by Franz-W. Kaiser (reprint from 1998), exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium |
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