Karel Appel *GESIGNEERD* 5/6 - 5/7/1988 Kunst luxe editie

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Joep van Lieshout

This searing urban portrait from visual artist Miguel Rio Branco draws upon his itinerant early years as the son of diplomats to reveal the common threads of struggle and loneliness in metropolises around the world

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Karel Appel *GESIGNEERD* 5/6 - 5/7/1988 Kunst luxe editieFrom 1940 to 1943, during the German occupation, Appel studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and it was there he met the young painter Corneille and, some years later, Constant; they became close friends for years. His parents opposed his choice to become an artist, leading him to leave home; this was also necessary because he needed to hide from the German police so that he would not be picked up and sent to Germany to work