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[edit] Almost carbon copy

The page is awfully similar to the Guggenheim collection biography: [1] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Hmik (talk • contribs) 20:19, 30 January 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Priority

Low-priority removed from project template. - Ilse@ 11:04, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Facts

For the benefit of editors and readers, the list below sets out in more detail where certain facts can be verified:

  • Full name Christiaan Karel Appel. [1]
  • Born in parents' house at 7 Dapperstraat, Amsterdam, on April 25 1921. [1]
  • Father Jan Appel had a barber shop on the ground floor. [1]
  • Mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French Huguenots. [2]
  • Had three brothers. [1]
  • At fourteen, produced his first real painting, on canvas, a still life of a fruit basket. [3]
  • For his fifteenth birthday, his wealthy uncle Karel Chevalier gave him a paint set and an easel. An avid amateur painter himself, Chevalier gave his namesake some lessons in painting. [4]

References:

  • [1] van Houts, Cathérine (2003). Karel Appel: de biografie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Olympus, 13. ISBN 9789025419134. 
  • [2] van Houts, Cathérine (2003). Karel Appel: de biografie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Olympus, 14. ISBN 9789025419134. 
  • [3] van Houts, Cathérine (2003). Karel Appel: de biografie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Olympus, 20. ISBN 9789025419134. 
  • [4] van Houts, Cathérine (2003). Karel Appel: de biografie (in Dutch). Amsterdam: Olympus, 20–21. ISBN 9789025419134.