The house where artist Karel Appel was born has opened its doors in Amsterdam. It has been furnished in the artist’s style and will house domestic and foreign students from the Dutch Royal Academy of Visual Arts.
Karel Appel who died in 2006 was one of the founders of the avant-garde Cobra movement in 1948. The housing association which owns the house in a lively market suburb of the capital believes the artist lived there till he was about seven years old.
Four apartments will be rented to the art students who will vacate them after 11 months, the length of their course at the academy. The house will then remain unoccupied for one month when it will be opened to the public. It will then feature an exhibition of the work of the young artists inspired by Appel and a display showing how the artist lived in the 1920s.
