Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | |
| 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 | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 1981 | Towarnicki, Frederic de | Fenêtres | (interview), 1981 (unpublished) | 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 1980 | Lambert, Jean-Clarence | Works on Paper | with foreword by Marshall McLuhan and text by Jean-Clarence Lambert (reprint from 1978), Abbeville Press, New York, 1980 |
Monograph | |
| 1962 | Gribaudo, Ezio & Sandberg, Willem | Le sculture di Karel Appel | with texts by Ezio Gribaudo and Willem Sandberg (reprint of poem from 1962), Edizione d’Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Turin, 1962 |
Monograph | |
| 2000 | Appel, Karel | Karel Appel: Der Machtwille der Planeten. Ich bin der Planet. Du bist der Planet. Wir sind die Planeten. Gedichte aus den Jahren 1941-1996 | Verlag Gachnang & Springer, Bern/Berlin, 2000 | Monograph | |
| 1962 | Vrijman, Jan & Sandberg, Willem | De Werkelijkheid van Karel Appel | with texts by Jan Vrijman and Willem Sandberg (reprint from 1961), De Bezige Bij, Amsterdam, 1962 |
Monograph | |
| 2000 | Houts, Cathérine van | Karel Appel. De Biografie | Uitgeverij Contact, Amsterdam, 2000 | Monograph |
