Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 | ||
| 1951 | Internationale d’ Art Experimental | Palais des Beaux-Arts, Liège, Belgium, 1951 |
Catalogue | ||
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 2014 | Gingeras, Alison | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 2001 | Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten | exh. cat. Galerie Ulysses, Vienna, 2001 |
Catalogue | |
| 1959 | Marinotti, Paolo | Dipingere coi tessuti | exh. cat. Palazzo Grassi, Venice, 1959 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 |
Catalogue | |
| 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 | |
| 2001 | Stokvis, Willemijn | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit | COBRA. De weg naar spontaniteit, V + K Publishing, Blaricum, 2001 | Miscellanious | |
| 1997 | Daix, Pierre | Karel Appel. L'Art psychopathologique | Les Arts et les Gens (radio broadcast for France Culture, Paris), September 1, 1997 | Miscellanious | |
| 1983 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Cobra | Ste Nlle des Editions du Chêne, Paris and Fonds Mercator, Antwerp, 1983. Co-published by Abbeville Press, Inc, New York, 1983 |
Miscellanious | |
| 2002 | Fuchs, Rudi | Tussen kunstenaars. Een romance | (includes reprints from 1990 and 1996), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 2002 | Miscellanious | |
| 1978 | Appel & Alechinsky. Encres a deux pinceaux | with foreword by Christian Dotremont and poems by Hugo Claus, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1978. Co-published as Zwart, Landshoff, Bentveld-Aerdenhout, 1978 and as Appel & Alechinsky. Two-brush paintings, Yves Rivière, Paris, 1980 | Miscellanious | ||
| 1967 | Dotremont, Christian | Lettre à Karel Appel, le 10 mars, 1967 | 1967 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1978 | Fuchs, Rudi | Dutch Painting | Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1978, pp. 193, 195 | Miscellanious | |
| 2008 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel – tekenaar | August 2008 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2008 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Cobra 1948 - 1951. Terug naar de bronnen van kunst en leven | Waanders, Zwolle, 2008 | Miscellanious | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Street Art, chapter 1 & 2 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | On painting | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1979 | Towarnicki, Frédéric de | Aux Etats-Unis 1977-79 | (interview), 1979 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 2009 | Kuspit, Donald | Titanic Power: Karel Appel in the Tradition of the New | April 2009 (unpublished) | Miscellanious | |
| 1980 | Claus, Hugo | Ontmoetingen met Corneille en Karel Appel | with introduction by Erik Slagter and text by Hugo Claus (reprint from 1953), Elsevier Manteau, Antwerpen/Amsterdam, 1980 |
Miscellanious | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1983 | Vree, Freddy de | Karel Appel | Kunstpocket # 16, Kunstforum, Schelderode, Belgium, 1983 | Monograph | |
| 1998 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Karel Appel, ein Farbgestus | (includes reprint from 1989), Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1998 | Monograph | |
| 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 | |
| 1987 | Claus, Hugo & Dotremont, Christian & Lambert, Jean-Clarence & Looten, Emmanuel & Lucebert & Tapíe, Michel & Towarnicki, Frédéric, de | Karel Appel 40 Ans de Peinture, Sculpture & Dessin | with multiple texts/reprints by Hugo Claus, Christian Dotremont, Jeanc-Clarence Lambert, Emmanuel Looten, Lucebert, Michel Tapié, Frédéric de Towarnicki and many others, Éditions Galilée, Paris, 1987 |
Monograph | |
| 1968 | Bellew, Peter | Karel Appel, Le Grandi Monografie, Pittori d'Oggi | Fratelli Fabri Editori, Milan, 1968 | Monograph | |
| 1990 | Hagenberg, Ronald (ed.) | Karel Appel The Complete Sculptures | with texts by Alan Jones, Donald Kuspit, Carlo McCormick, Edition Lafayette, New York, 1990 | Monograph | |
| 2009 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur / Karel Appel, A Gesture of Colour | Universitaire Pers Leuven, 2009 | Monograph | |
| 2019 | Meulemans, Naomi | VOGEL. Karel Appel (1921-2006) en de mythe van het spontane maken | The Phoebus Foundation, Antwerpen, 2019 |
Monograph | |
| 1999 | Fuchs, Rudi & Gachnang, Johannes & Kuspit, Donald | Karel Appel: Psychopathological Notebook | Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 1999 |
Monograph | |
| 2021 | Seligmann, Nadine | Mangeur d'annonces: Between a Reveling in Materials and Painting | Karel Appel. Collages 1957-1968, published by Jahn und Jahn, Munich |
Monograph | |
| 1980 | Frankenstein, Alfred | Karel Appel | with texts by Alfred Frankenstein, Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1974) and interview by Frédéric de Towarnicki (reprint from 1977), Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1980. Co-published by Meulenhoff/Landshoff, Amsterdam, 1980 |
Monograph | |
| 1962 | Claus, Hugo | Karel Appel Painter | with foreword by Herbert Read, text by Hugo Claus, poem by Lucebert (reprint from 1960) and by Willem Sandberg, A. J. G. Strengholt, Amsterdam, 1962 |
Monograph |
