Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel April 1921 May 2006 was a Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet. He started painting at the age of fourteen and studied at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam in the 1940s. He was one of the founders of the avantgarde movement Cobra in 1948.
Christiaan Karel Appel was born onApril 1921 in his parents house at Dapperstraatin Amsterdam, the Netherlands. As a child he was often called Kik. On the ground floor his father, Jan Appel, had a barbershop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. Karel Appel had three brothers.
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