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Karel Appel
born April 25, 1921, Amsterdam, Neth. Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic artist. He attended Amsterdam's Royal Academy of Fine Arts (1940-43) and was cofounder of the COBRA group of northern European Expressionists. In 1950 he moved to Paris; by the 1960s he had settled in New York City. An exponent of expressive abstraction, he developed a painting style characterized by thick layering of pigment, violent colour and brushwork, and crude, reductive figures. His figurative sculptures are executed in metal and wood. He painted portraits of jazz musicians and a number of public works, including a mural in the Paris UNESCO building
Karel Capek
born Jan. 9, 1890, Malé Svatoovice, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary died Dec. 25, 1938, Prague, Czech. Czech novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. apek's "black utopias," works showing the dangers of technological progress, include the cautionary play R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots (1920), a depiction of a society dependent on mechanical workers called robots (a term he coined from a Czech word for forced labour). The comic fantasy The Insect Play (1921; with his brother Josef) satirizes human greed. The Makropoulos Affair (1922) was made into an opera by Leo Janácek. apek explored aspects of knowledge in the novel trilogy Hordubal (1933), Meteor (1934), and An Ordinary Life (1934)
Karel van Mander
born May 1548, Meulebeke, Flanders, Spanish Netherlands died Sept. 2, 1606, Amsterdam, Neth. Dutch painter, poet, and writer. Born of a noble family, after much wandering he settled in Haarlem in 1583 and founded a successful academy of painting with Hendrik Goltzius and Cornelis Cornelisz (1562-1638). He is best known for The Book of Painters (1604), which contains about 175 biographies of Dutch, Flemish, and German painters of the 15th-16th centuries; it became for the northern countries what Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Painters had been for Italy