Selected bibliography
| Year | Author | Title | Source | Details | Type Sort descending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Lamarque-Mouzon, Mary Lou | Karel Appel, le vertige du noir | Art Thèmes | (interview)(October - November 1989), p. 15 | Article |
| 1958 | Jaffé, H.C.L. | Rencontre au printemps de Karel Appel | Quadrum | Les arts plastiques au nouveau siège de l'Unesco, a special issue of Quadrum, # 6, 1958 | 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 | Wingen, Ed | Karel Appel heeft het licht gezien | Kunstbeeld | vol. 15, # 2 (February 1991), pp. 23-26 | Article |
| 1951 | Ragon, Michel | Expression et Non-Figuration. Problemes et Tendances de l'Art d'Aujourd'hui | Edition de la Revue Neuf | Article | |
| 1963 | Staber, Margrit | Die «Nudes» von Karel Appel | Art International | VII, # 8, October 25, 1963, pp. 88-89 | Article |
| 1992 | Erkel, Ronald van | The Intuitive Logistics of Karel Appel | Nedlloyd World | (autumn 1992), pp. 28-31 | Article |
| 1989 | Lyotard, Jean-François | Sans Appel | Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts | Article | |
| 1958 | Vinkenoog, Simon | Omstreden verschijnsel: Karel Appel uit de doeken | Haagse Post | January 18, 1958, pp. 13-15 | 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 |
| 1952 | Jaffé, H.C.L. | Fifty years of Dutch Painting | The Studio | vol. 143, # 710 (May 1952), pp. 129-135 |
Article |
| 1992 | Schug, Albert | Die Kunst unseres Jahrhunderts | Naumann & Göbel, Cologne, 1992, pp. 153, 212, 296 | Article | |
| 1989 | Re, Marisa del | Four Questions and Answers | Essere | (interview), not dated |
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 |
| 1987 | Bax, Marty | De Appelbar | Jong Holland | vol. 3, # 3 (September 1987) pp. 4-13 | Article |
| 1992 | Armengaud, Françoise | Alors naît l'Animal | Bestiaire CoBrA | Edition la Difference, Paris, series «Mobile Matière», 1992, pp. 105-151 | Article |
| 2011 | Goossens, Guido | Monumentale kunst | In opdracht: zestig jaar percentageregeling beeldende kunst bij Rijksgebouwen, SUN, Amsterdam, 2011, pp. 317-321 | 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 | |
| 1984 | Baj, Enrico | Imbratto tele ma discendo da Van Gogh | Corriere della Sera | (interview), not dated |
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 |
| 1987 | Caprile, Luciano | I Maestri di oggi | Arte | # 175 (June 1987) | Article |
| 1964 | Citroen, Paul | Appel or Citroen | Delta. A Review of Arts Life and Thought in the Netherlands | # 1 (spring 1964), pp. 13-23 |
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 | |
| 1984 | Bordaz, Jean-Pierre | Interview with Karel Appel | Flash Art, French edition | # 3 (spring 1984) | Article |
| 1953 | Sweeney, James Johnson | Younger European painters | exh. cat. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1953 |
Catalogue | |
| 2012 | Bashkoff, Tracey | Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949 - 1960 | with texts by Tracey Bashkoff et al., exh. cat. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2012 |
Catalogue | |
| 1959 | Tillich, Paul | New images of man | with prefatory note by Peter Selz and text by Paul Tillich, exh. cat. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1959 |
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| 1965 | Dotremont, Christian & Lucebert & Read, Herbert & Schierbeek, Bert & Ting, Walasse & Vinkenoog, Simon | Appel | with texts by Christian Dotremont, Lucebert (including reprint from 1950), Herbert Read (excerpt from 1957), Bert Schierbeek, Walasse Ting, Simon Vinkenoog, exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam & Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1965 & Städtische Kunstgalerie, Bochum, Germany & Charlottenborg, Copenhagen & Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Germany & Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| 2000 | Fuchs, Rudi & Dosogne, Ludo | Karel Appel | with text by Rudi Fuchs (reprint from 1996) and interview by Ludo Dosogne, exh. cat. Galerie Kusseneers, Lier, Belgium |
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| 1960 | Looten, Emmanuel | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Galerie Rive Droite, Paris, 1960 |
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| 1960 | Sawyer, Kenneth B. | Karel Appel: Paintings 1955–1960 and Recent Gouaches | exh. cat. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, 1960 |
Catalogue | |
| 2013 | Stokvis, Willemijn | Karel Appel. I do not paint, I hit! | exh. cat. Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark, 2013 |
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| 2000 | Kaiser, Franz-W. | Karel Appel: Recente sculpturen & gedichten | with text by Franz-W. Kaiser (reprint from 1998), exh. cat. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium |
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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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| 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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| 1954 | Doelman, Cornelis | Olanda | exh. cat. Biennale di Venezia XXVII, 1954 |
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| 2014 | Gingeras, Alison | Karel Appel | exh. cat. Blum & Poe, New York, 2014 |
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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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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi | Karel Appel. Opere 1991 – 2002 | exh. cat. Galleria Arte 92, Milan, 2005 |
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| 1981 | Honnef, Klaus | Appel | with text by Klaus Honnef (reprint from exh. cat. Dreissig Jahre Karel Appel, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven), exh. cat. Museu de Arte do São Paulo, 1981 |
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| 1954 | Tapié, Michel | Appel | exh. cat. Studio Paul Fachetti, Paris, 1954 |
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| 1996 | Fuchs, Rudi | Appel. Figures et paysages | exh. cat. Galerie Lelong, Paris, 1996 |
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| 2005 | Fuchs, Rudi & Steininger, Florian | Karel Appel: Retrospective 1945 – 2005 | with texts by Rudi Fuchs (reprints from 1990 and 1995), Florian Steininger (reprint from 2002), exh. cat. Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, 2005 |
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| 1981 | Reinhartz-Tergau, Elisabeth | Karel Appel: tentoonstelling t.g.v. zijn 60-ste verjaardag, | exh. cat. Galerie Nova Spectra, The Hague, 1981 |
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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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