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Karel Appel e Christiaan Karel Appel was born on 25 April 1921 [1]  in his parents' house at Dapperstraat 7 in  Amsterdam ,  Netherlands . As a child he was called "Kik". On the ground floor, his father, Jan Appel, had a barber shop. His mother, born Johanna Chevalier, was a descendant of French  Huguenots . Karel Appel had three brothers. [2] At fourteen, Appel produced his first real painting on canvas, a still life of a fruit basket. 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. [3] Career [ edit ] Appel studied at the  Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten  in Amsterdam during the German Occupation from 1940 to 1943 and it was there he met the young painter  Corneille  and, some years later,  Constant ; they becam...