Karel Appel
Christiaan Karel Appel 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. He was also an avid sculptor and has had works featured in MoMA and other museums worldwide.
25 April 1921
Born on the same birth day (25 April): Arapeta Awatere • Gedhun Choekyi Nyima • Luise Adolpha Le Beau • Marguerite Moreau • Marie-Michèle Gagnon • Robert Skidelsky • Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March • Sara Paxton • Werner Heyde
Born in the same month (April 1921): Anna Lee Aldred • Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith • Christopher Hewett • Elizabeth Wilson • Franco Corelli • Georgy Beregovoy • Herman van Raalte • Jan Novák (composer) • Jan Sterling • Janet Blair • Jean-Marie Balestre • Judy Agnew • Leon Henkin • Orunamamu • Robert Dhéry • William Bergsma • Yitzhak Navon