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Karel Appel was a Dutch painter of turbulent, colourful, and semi-abstract compositions. He was a member of the Dutch Experimental Group and co-founder of CoBrA (1948). He was also a noted sculptor and graphic artist. Appel was influenced first by Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, and later by Jean Dubuffet. In 1954, he received the UNESCO Prize at the Venice Biennale and was commissioned to execute a mural for the restaurant of the Stedelijk Museum in 1956. During the 1950’s and ’60’s, he produced several mural paintings for public buildings around the world. He had numerous solo exhibitions in New York, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Vienna, Rome, and Basel, and is featured in public collections in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Albertina, Vienna; and others.
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Ivan Kožarić
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Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos
Šid, Serbia, 1921 - Zagreb, Croatia, 1987