Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source Sort descending | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo & Michaux, Henri & Sandberg, Willem | Vitalità nell'Arte | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 & Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen, Germany & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
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| 1977 | Wingen, Ed | Het Gezicht van Appel | Van Spijk, Venlo, 1977 | Monograph | |
| 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 | 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” |
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| 1964 | Read, Herbert | Appel | exh. cat. American Art Gallery, Copenhagen |
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Description of an Artistic Position | (speech at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), September 18, 1994 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2015 | Gingeras, Alison & Godet, Marie & Laugharn, Fiona | The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up. Cobra & Its Legacy | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2015 |
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| 1959 | Neuburg, Hans | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Charles Lienhard, Zürich, 1959 |
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| 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 |
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| 1986 | Hunter, Sam | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1986 |
Catalogue | |
| 1995 | Karel Appel: Sculpture | with introduction by David Anderson and Reine Hauser, exh. cat. Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, 1995 | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 | |
| 1953 | Sweeney, James Johnson | Younger European painters | exh. cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1953 |
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| 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 |
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| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 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 | 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1965 | Dotremont, Christian & Lucebert & Read, Herbert & Schierbeek, Bert & Ting, Walasse & Vinkenoog, Simon | Appel | with texts by Christian Dotremont, Lucebert (including reprint from 1950), Herbert Read (excerpt from 1957), Bert Schierbeek, Walasse Ting, Simon Vinkenoog, exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam & Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1965 & Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany & Charlottenborg, Copenhagen & Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany & Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| 1983 | Vree, Freddy de | Karel Appel | Kunstpocket # 16, Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium, 1983 | Monograph | |
| 1995 | Gachnang, Johannes | Karel Appel, Toskanischer Horizont | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Zürich, 1995 |
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| 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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| 1960 | Sawyer, Kenneth B. | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches | exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960 |
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| 1991 | Lahusen, Margarita | Karel Appel, Portrait Emmanuel Looten 1956 | Kleine Werkmonographie 78, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 | Article | |
| 1998 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel: Birth of a Landscape | with text by Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1995), exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 1998 |
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| 2008 | Cerritelli, Claudio | Karel Appel: Opere 1990–2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2008 |
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| 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 |
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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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| 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 |
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| 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 | Fuchs, Rudi & Hartog, Arie & Kuspit, Donald | Sculptures without a Hero | with introduction by Erika Röder-Diruf, Martina Rudloff and Paul Scholten, exh. cat. Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, 1998 |
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| 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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| 1965 | Geirlandt, Karel | Karel Appel: Vliegende Man, 1958 | Openbaar kunstbezit Vlaanderen, 1965 | Article | |
| 1995 | Stokvis, Willemijn | De taal van Cobra en haar bronnen: uit de museumcollectie Van Stuijvenberg | coll. cat. Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Amstelveen, 1995 |
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| 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 |
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| 1998 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Rohsmann, Arnulf | Karel Appel. Thinking Spaces | exh. cat. Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria, 1998 |
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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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| 1954 | Doelman, Cornelis | Olanda | exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954 |
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| 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 | |
| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Fuchs, Rudi & Ottmann, Klaus | Karel Appel Retrospectief / Karel Appel Retrospective | exh. cat. Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, 2016 |
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| 1978 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel. Peintures et sculptures | exh. cat. Fondation Chateau de Jau, Cases-de-Pène, France, 1978 |
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| 1998 | Stoullig, Claire | Appel: Natural Phenomenon | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1998 |
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