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Karel Appel

1921 - 2006

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Christiaan Karel Appel (pronounced [ˈkrɪstijaːŋ ˈkaːrəl ˈɑpəl] ; 25 April 1921 – 3 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 avant-garde movement CoBrA in 1948. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karel Appel has received more than 261,488 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Karel Appel is the 416th most popular painter (up from 450th in 2019), the 173rd most popular biography from Netherlands and the 40th most popular Dutch Painter.

Karel Appel is most famous for his abstract paintings.

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Karel Appel ranks 416 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Pietro Cavallini, Marcantonio Raimondi, Carlo Dolci, Lucian Freud, and Cristofano Allori. After him are Isaac Levitan, Jan Matsys, Pieter Lastman, Bernard Buffet, Marianne von Werefkin, and Adam Elsheimer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Karel Appel ranks 69. Before him are György Cziffra, Mario Lanza, Miklós Jancsó, Farida of Egypt, Paul Watzlawick, and Gérard Debreu. After him are Amin al-Hafiz, Françoise Gilot, Thomas Schelling, Jack Steinberger, Robert Bruce Merrifield, and Lydia Litvyak. Among people deceased in 2006, Karel Appel ranks 56. Before him are William Styron, Shelley Winters, Gillo Pontecorvo, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, and Mariska Veres. After him are Ta Mok, Robert Bruce Merrifield, James Van Allen, Murray Bookchin, David Bronstein, and Shamil Basayev.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Karel Appel ranks 173 out of 1,646. Before him are Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727), Willy van de Kerkhof (1951), Arjen Robben (1984), Famke Janssen (1964), Mariska Veres (1947), and Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778). After him are Pieter Lastman (1583), Peter Bosz (1963), Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920), Zacharias Janssen (1585), Wim Duisenberg (1935), and Jeroen Krabbé (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In Netherlands

Among painters born in Netherlands, Karel Appel ranks 40. Before him are Meindert Hobbema (1638), Abraham Bloemaert (1566), Maarten van Heemskerck (1498), Willem Claesz. Heda (1594), Aelbert Cuyp (1620), and Ferdinand Bol (1616). After him are Pieter Lastman (1583), Jan Lievens (1607), Hendrick ter Brugghen (1588), Balthasar van der Ast (1593), Rachel Ruysch (1664), and Jan van Scorel (1495).

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