Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Bufill, Juan | La realidad de Karel Appel | ABC | October 24, 1991 | Article |
| 1998 | Maruyama, Eiko | The World of Karel Appel | The Japanese journal | De Regio Publishers, Amsterdam (April - June 1998) | Article |
| 1989 | Hahn, Otto | Peinture à la tronçonneuse | L'Express | # 1952, December 2-8, 1988 | 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 | |
| 1995 | Jansen, Kasper | Prachtige Zauberflöte van Appel en Audi | NRC Handelsblad | December 2, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Braet, Jan | Het paradijs is nu | Knack | (interview with Rudi Fuchs and Karel Appel), # 41, October 6, 2004, pp. 124–128 |
Article |
| 1985 | Kuspit, Donald | Atomic Weather: Karel Appel | Art in America | # 4 (April 1985), pp. 160-163 | Article |
| 1991 | Depondt, Paul | Karel Appel de retour aux Pays-Bas | Septentrion | year 20, # 1, 1991 | Article |
| 1992 | Cotter, Holland | Karel Appel | New York Times | review, December 25, 1992 | Article |
| 1998 | Vagheggi, Paolo | Tutti i nemici del CoBrA | La Repubblica | (interview), December 7, 1998 | Article |
| 1988 | Hunter, Sam | Karel Appel In the Spirit of our Time | Arts Magazine | (January 1988)(reprint from 1986) | Article |
| 1995 | Kimmelman, Michael | Rethinking Postwar Pigeonholes for Art | The New York Times | July 7, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Camps, Hugo | Hugo Camps in gesprek met schilder Karel Appel | Elsevier | (interview), # 44, October 30, 2004, pp. 42-44 | Article |
| 1991 | Hoffmann, Gabriele | Kraft aus der Tube | Stuttgarter Zeitung | July 3, 1991 | Article |
| 1992 | Erkel, Ronald van | The Intuitive Logistics of Karel Appel | Nedlloyd World | (autumn 1992), pp. 28-31 | Article |
| 1982 | Houts, Cathérine van | Appel verkent 't sentiment | Het Parool | January 22, 1982 | Article |
| 1988 | Huser, France | L'Appel de l'oeil | Le Nouvel Observateur | # 1254, November 17-23, 1988 | Article |
| 2014 | Kitnick, Alex | Karel Appel. Blum & Poe | Artforum | vol. 53, # 3 (November 2014), pp. 275-276 | Article |
| 1995 | Kraft, Martin | Karel Appel. Lebende Legende | Neue Züricher Zeitung | September 29, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Dumont, Benoît | Karel Appel, peintre au regard toujours neuf | Fortis Tribune | # 17 (September 2004), p. 16 | Article |
| 1971 | Jespersen, Gunnar | Musik er min inspiration | Berlingske Tidende | Article | |
| 1991 | Huber, Alfred | Rot ist der Schrei nach Freiheit | Mannheimer Morgen | July 16, 1991 | Article |
| 1992 | Schug, Albert | Die Kunst unseres Jahrhunderts | Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, 1992, pp. 153, 212, 296 | Article | |
| 1946 | Klinkenberg, H | Karel Appel | Palaestra. Maandblad voor jonge kunstenaars | year 1, # 3 (December 1946), p. 17 |
Article |
| 1962 | Gans, Louis | La Contribution Hollandaise au développement international de l’art depuis 1945 | Vie des Arts: Revue Canadienne Trimestrielle | (autmn 1962), pp. 21-27 | Article |
| 1982 | Klaster, Jan Bart | Opzienbarende comeback van Karel Appel | Het Parool | January 26, 1982 | Article |
| 1988 | Krebs, Patrick | Les yeux grands ouverts de Karel Appel | Artstudio | # 9 (summer 1988), pp. 112-121 | Article |
| 1995 | Kruntorad, Paul | Anmalen gegen die Unübersichtlichkeit | Der Standard | June 19, 1995 | Article |
| 2004 | Gollin, Rob | In het Paleis stoten schilderijen elkaar wakker | de Volkskrant | art section, October 14, 2004, pp. 16-17 | Article |
| 1957 | Doelman, Cornelis | Karel Appel. L'aventure de la sensation extasiée | Quadrum. Revue internationale d’art moderne | # 3, 1957, pp. 41-48 |
Article |
| 1991 | Kaiser, Franz-W | Over het zinnelijke in de kunst | Forum International | # 6 (January - February 1991), pp. 62-67 | Article |
| 1992 | Thorn-Petit, Liliane | Karel Appel | (excerpt from interview for RTL Television, Luxembourg), Portraits d’artistes, Editions Serpenoise, Metz, 1992 | Article | |
| 1999 | Lucebert | Dagwerk van Dionysos | (reprint from 1948), RASTER, # 88 (1999), p. 141 | Article | |
| 1982 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Karel Appel. Le grognement de l’ours | Canal | # 45/46 (April 1982) |
Article |
| 1988 | Ragon, Michel | Les Annees 50 | Connaissance des Arts | numero special, 1988 | Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Vom Chaos zur Ordnung | Klagenfurter Zeitung | November 30, 1995 | 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 |
| 1957 | George, Waldemar | Karel Appel: Le Hollandais volant | Prisme des Arts | # 15 (1957-58), pp.41-43 | Article |
| 1973 | Bibeb | Karel Appel: Mijn LSD is m’n verf | Vrij Nederland | December 22, 1973 | Article |
| 1991 | Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel at the Gemeentemuseum | Artforum International | (review) (March 1991), p. 145 | Article |
| 1993 | Kuspit, Donald | Singing Donkeys: Nieuwe beelden van Karel Appel | with foreword by Rudi Fuchs, exh. cat. Museum Paleis Lange Voorhout, The Hague, 1993 |
Article | |
| 1988 | Verdet, André | Des lumières et des vibrations | New Art International | (interview), # 1/2 (May - June 1988) | Article |
| 2015 | Crochet, Alexander | Karel Appel s’effeuille au Centre Pompidou | Le Quotidien de l’Art | (review), # 930, October 27, 2015 | Article |
| 1995 | Misar, Grete | Alterswerk eines Giganten | Die Furche | December 7, 1995 | 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 | |
| 1957 | Rouve, Pierre | Of Appel and Tradition | Art News and Review (April 1957) | Article | |
| 1986 | Hurlburt, Roger | A Bite of the Appel | News/Sun-Sentinel | September 28, 1986 | Article |
| 1991 | Lahusen, Margarita | Karel Appel, Portrait Emmanuel Looten 1956 | Kleine Werkmonographie 78, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 | Article | |
| 1993 | Bakker, Jan-Hendrik | Karel Appel. Ik ben 72 en begin helemaal opnieuw | Haagsche Courant | February 16, 1993 | Article |
| 1983 | Ashton, Dore | Affirmation and Apocalypse in Karel Appel's Recent Paintings | Arts Magazine | # 8 (April 1983) pp. 68-69 | Article |