Standing Figure

Karel AppelWW-1949-007322

1949·wood (plant material), iron (metal), oil paint (paint)·width: 29.5 cm, height: 56 cm, depth: 13.5 cm

Rijksmuseum / Public Domain

Catalogue

Year: 1949
Medium: wood (plant material), iron (metal), oil paint (paint)
Dimensions: width: 29.5 cm, height: 56 cm, depth: 13.5 cm
Collection: Rijksmuseum
Artist: Karel Appel

Artist

Karel Appel

Painting

Drawing inspiration from folk art and children's doodles and rejecting all formal theories and strictures of style, Karel Appel once remarked, "I paint like a barbarian in this barbarous time." An Amsterdam native, Appel found kindred spirits in Copenhagen and Brussels and together they founded CoBrA, issuing a manifesto extolling the virtues of collaboration and experimentation and exhibiting their vibrant, impetuous abstractions in several groundbreaking shows throughout the European continent.

Zürich, Switzerland

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