Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort ascending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Mad Artist | (lecture at the Dutch Embassy in Washington), April 27, 2004 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1984 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Crime a New York | (interview), 1984 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1995 | Fuchs, Rudi | Interview with Karel Appel | (radio broadcast for VPRO “De Avonden”), February 23, 1995 | Miscellanious | |
| 2004 | Roodenburg-Schadd, Caroline | Expressie en ordening. Het verzamelbeleid van Willem Sandberg voor het Stedelijk Museum 1945-1962 | NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam, 2004 | Miscellanious | |
| 1948 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos, voor Karel Appel | Poem | 1948 (unpublished) |
Miscellanious |
| 1984 | Stokvis, Willemijn (ed.) | De doorbraak van de moderne kunst in Nederland, 1945 - 1951 | Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam 1984 | Miscellanious | |
| 1948 | Troelstra, Jelle | Over Schilderkunst | radio broadcast for VARA, Hilversum | Artistieke Staalkaart, March 12, 1949 |
Miscellanious |
| 1990 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel's Significance in the History of Expressionism | (lecture for the exhibition If I Were a Bird, Gemeente Museum Den Haag, The Hague), 1990 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1981 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Fenêtres | (interview), 1981 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1952 | Tapié, Michel | Un Art Autre | Gabriel-Giraud et Fils | Paris, 1952 |
Miscellanious |
| 1994 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | A Description of an Artistic Position | (speech at Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan), September 18, 1994 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1997 | Daix, Pierre | Karel Appel. L'Art psychopathologique | Les Arts et les Gens (radio broadcast for France Culture, Paris), September 1, 1997 | Miscellanious | |
| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 1960 | Sawyer, Kenneth B. | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches | exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960 |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
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| 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 |
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| 2016 | Ottmann, Klaus | Karel Appel. A Gesture of Color. Paintings and Sculptures, 1947-2004 | exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2016 |
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| 1998 | Bonito Oliva, Achille | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, 1998 |
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| 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 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. & Lotz, Rouven | Karel Appel. Der abstrakte Blick | exh. cat. Emil Schumacher Museum Hagen, Germany, 2016 |
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| 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 | |
| 1967 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel | with text by Willem Sandberg (excerpt from 1961), exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1967 |
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| 2016 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel. Paintings from Six Decades | with foreword by Gabriele Wimmer & John Sailer, texts by Rudi Fuchs, Donald Kuspit, exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2016. |
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| 1961 | Sandberg, Willem | Karel Appel: West Coast Exhibiton | exh. cat. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1961 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1961 | Boudaille, George | K. Appel | with text by George Boudaille (reprint from Cimaise, 1961), exh. cat. Galleria dell 'Ariete, Milan, 1961 |
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| 1979 | The Graphic Art of Karel Appel: Art Gallery of Hamilton Collection | with introduction by Glen E. Cumming, exh. cat. Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Ontario, 1979 | Catalogue | ||
| 1987 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Recent Paintings and Sculpture | exh. cat. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, 1987 |
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| 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 |
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| 1955 | Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel | with poems by Emmanuel Looten, Hugo Claus, exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1955 |
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| 1984 | Jónsdóttir, Selma & Meijer, Ischa | Karel Appel | with texts by Selma Jónsdóttir, Ischa Meijer (reprint from April 1984), Listasafn, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1984 |
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| 1968 | Alvard, Julien & Claus, Hugo & Dotremont, Christian & Looten, Emmanuel & Lupasco, Stéphane & Read, Herbert & Sandberg, Willem & Tapié, Michel | Karel Appel Reliefs 1966-1968 | with texts by Julien Alvard, Hugo Claus (reprint from 1965), Christian Dotremont (reprint from 1957), Emmanuel Looten (reprint from 1956), Stéphane Lupasco (reprint from 1961), Herbert Read (reprint from 1957), Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1962), Michel Tapié (reprint from 1953), exh. cat. Centre National d'Art Contemporain Paris, 1968 & Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam & Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels |
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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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