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  |  | APPEL Karel (1921-2006) "I paint with palette knifes or the hands spreads out, sometimes of the whole pots of only one blow" 
    
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    | 1921 | born in 1921 in Amsterdam |  
    | 1948 | creates with Corneille and Constant an experimental group ("Reflex") as opposed to the geometrical abstraction |  
    | 1949 | the group joins the Cobra movement |  
    | 1957 | Portraits of jazz musicians and other portraits and nudes |  
    | 1964 | initiates a work on big polychrome reliefs and on wooden and polyester sculptures |  
    | 1976 | collaboration with people from Lima for creation of mural paintings |  
    | 2006 | died in Zurich on May 11th 2006 |  |