Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source Sort ascending | Details | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Ratcliff, Carter | Artist's Dialogue: Karel Appel -Optimism and Apocalypse- | Architectural Digest | (April 1987), p. 44 | Article |
| 1970 | Meyere, Jos A. L. de & Vinkenoog, Simon | Appel’s Oogappels | Appel’s Oogappels | (reprint from 1963), exh. cat. Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1970 |
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| 1991 | Bufill, Juan | La realidad de Karel Appel | ABC | October 24, 1991 | Article |
| 1986 | Ragon, Michel | Le A de COBRA = Appel, Constant, Corneille | 25 Ans d'Art Vivant | Éditions Galilée, Paris, series «Ecritures-Figures», 1986, pp. 128-130 | Article |
| 1984 | Dypreau, Jean | Karel Appel ou le bel aujourd'hui | +/o | year XI, # 40 (June 1984), p. 13 |
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| 2015 | Crochet, Alexander | Karel Appel s’effeuille au Centre Pompidou | Le Quotidien de l’Art | (review), # 930, October 27, 2015 | Article |
| 1991 | Barten, Walter | Verftube als raket | Financieel Dagblad | January 14, 1991 | Article |
| 1983 | Mulder, Jouke | Karel Appel: Mijn laatste werk heeft meer met de mens te maken | Elseviers Magazine | (interview) year 39, # 24, June 18, 1983 | Article |
| 1988 | Hunter, Sam | Karel Appel In the Spirit of our Time | Arts Magazine | (January 1988)(reprint from 1986) | Article |
| 1951 | Cobra, Revue international de l’art experimental | # 10 (autumn 1951), used as exh. cat. for IIe Exposition |
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| 1982 | Beeren, Wim | Het Nieuwe Werk van Karel Appel 1979 – 1981 | exh. cat. Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1982 |
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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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| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
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| 1976 | Redeker, Hans | Karel Appel: schilderijen, gouaches, acryls, keramische beelden 1950–1975 | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1976 |
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| 1985 | Meijer, Ischa & Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Karel Appel: New Yorker Bilder 1984–1985 | with texts by Ischa Meijer (excerpt of interview from 1984) and Frédéric de Towarnicki (excerpt of interview from 1977), exh. cat. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, 1985 |
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| 1951 | Internationale d’ Art Experimental | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium, 1951 |
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| 1982 | Esteban, Claude | Appel et Alechinsky. Encres à deux pinceaux, peintures, etc. | with explanation by Pierre Alechinsky, foreword by Christian Dotremont (reprint from 1978), exh. cat. Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France, 1982 |
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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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| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 2026 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | On Influence and Meaning | Press release exh. Southpaw: Gerasimos Floratos & Karel Appel, Almine Rech, New York, 2026 |
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| 1982 | Josephus-Jitta, Mariette | Karel Appel: Werk op papier 1941 – 1981, tekeningen, aquarellen, gouaches | with text by Mariette Josephus-Jitta, exh. cat. Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague, 1982 & Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany & Städtische Galerie, Erlangen, Germany & Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands & Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm & Musee des Augustins, Toulouse & Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen & Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo |
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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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| 2014 | Gingeras, Alison | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014 |
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| 1977 | Berger, Peter | Karel Appel | Van Spijk, Venlo, 1977 | Monograph | |
| 1985 | Flomenhaft, Eleanor | Karel Appel | The Roots and Developments of Cobra Art, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, 1985, pp. 73-91 | Article | |
| 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 |
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| 1964 | Claus, Hugo | Karel Appel Schilder | with foreword by Herbert Read, texts by Hugo Claus and poem by Lucebert (reprint from 1960), A.J.G. Strengholt, Mammoet Reeks # 25, Amsterdam, 1964 |
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| 1982 | Béraud, Gilles & Besson, Christian & Dotremont, Christian & Lecombre, Sylvain | CoBrA, 1948-1951 | exh. cat. Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris & Maison de la Culture, Chalon-sur-Saône, France & Museé des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, France |
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| 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 |
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| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo | Dipingere coi tessuti | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 |
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| 1977 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Éloge de la Folie | Yves Rivière, Paris, 1977 | Monograph | |
| 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 |
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| 2007 | Hartog Jager, Hans den | Karel Appel in Essentie | Athaneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2007 | Monograph | |
| 1964 | Read, Herbert | Appel | exh. cat. American Art Gallery, Copenhagen |
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| 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 | 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 |
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| 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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| 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 | 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 |
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| 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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