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): Alejandro Valverde • Franco Mannino • Maud Hart Lovelace • Paul Baloff • Paul Wassif • Sara Baras
Born in the same month (April 1921): Anna Lee Aldred • Antonino Rocca • Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith • Christopher Hewett • Chuck Connors • Elizabeth Wilson • Feza Gürsey • Franco Corelli • Georgy Beregovoy • Jack Rayner • Jan Novák (composer) • Jan Sterling • Jean-Marie Balestre • Judy Agnew • Robert Karvelas • William Bergsma • Wolfgang Leonhard