Karel Christian AppelBirth Chart

25/04/1921 16:00

AA - Birth record cited

Astro-Databank

Amsterdam

Netherlands

52°22' ↑ North - 4°54' → East

00:20 East

Sun Moon Asc

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Karel Appel was a Dutch painter, sculptor and poet regarded as one of the most vigorous figures of the post‑World War II generation. Trained at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, he rose to international prominence as a founder of the CoBrA avant‑garde movement (1948), whose spontaneous, “childlike” aesthetic broke with academic conventions and provoked public scandals in the Netherlands, such as the controversy over the fresco Questioning Children, which remained covered for a decade.

Over the course of his career he worked in both painting and assemblage sculpture, using recycled materials and bold colors — white, red, yellow, blue and black — and drew influences from Picasso, Matisse and Jean Dubuffet. His pictorial poetry and use of a primitive visual language extended his practice across murals, canvases and three‑dimensional objects.

In the 1950s he established himself in Paris and broadened his international presence through travels and exhibitions in Europe and the United States; he took part in significant shows such as The New Decade at MoMA and exhibited in prominent galleries and museums. He also painted portraits of jazz musicians and is represented in major public collections from the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

His legacy has been preserved by the Karel Appel Foundation, created to protect, catalogue and promote his work; from the 1990s onward his recognition in the Netherlands grew again, with major retrospectives and frequent reexhibitions in museums devoted to postwar and experimental art.

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Influences in signs

↣ Sun in Taurus - 04°50' - in house 8/9

↣ Moon in Sagittarius - 14°11' - in house 4

↣ Mercury in Aries - 19°10' - in house 8

↣ Venus in Taurus - 00°14' - in house 8 - retrograde

↣ Mars in Taurus - 22°37' - in house 9

↣ Jupiter in Virgo - 09°06' - in house 12 - retrograde

↣ Saturn in Virgo - 18°31' - in house 1 - retrograde

↣ Uranus in Pisces - 08°40' - in house 6

↣ Neptune in Leo - 10°58' - in house 11

↣ Pluto in Cancer - 07°02' - in house 10

↣ North Node in Libra - 27°09' - in house 2 - retrograde

↣ Ascendant in Virgo - 21°37' - in house 1

↣ Midheaven in Gemini - 18°56' - in house 10

↣ Equatorial Ascendant in Virgo - 16°55'

Influences in houses

↣ Sun in house 8/9

↣ Moon in house 4

↣ Mercury in house 8

↣ Venus in house 8

↣ Mars in house 9

↣ Jupiter in house 12

↣ Saturn in house 1

↣ Uranus in house 6

↣ Neptune in house 11

↣ Pluto in house 10

↣ North Node in house 2

↣ Ascendant in house 1

↣ Midheaven in house 10

Aspects

↣ Sun and Venus conjunction (4°36' separating)

↣ Sun and Jupiter trine (4°16' applying)

↣ Sun and Uranus sextile (3°50' applying)

↣ Sun and Neptune square (6°08' applying)

↣ Sun and Pluto sextile (2°12' applying)

↣ Sun and North Node opposition (7°41' separating)

↣ Moon and Mercury trine (4°59' applying)

↣ Moon and Mars antiparallel

↣ Moon and Jupiter square (5°05' separating)

↣ Moon and Saturn square (4°20' applying)

↣ Moon and Uranus square (5°31' separating)

↣ Moon and Neptune trine (3°13' separating) antiparallel

↣ Moon and Pluto antiparallel

↣ Moon and Equatorial Ascendant square (2°45' separating)

↣ Moon and Midheaven opposition (4°45' separating)

↣ Mercury and North Node opposition (7°59' applying)

↣ Mercury and Midheaven sextile (0°14' applying)

↣ Venus and Neptune parallel

↣ Venus and North Node opposition (3°05' applying)

↣ Mars and Saturn trine (4°07' separating)

↣ Mars and Equatorial Ascendant trine (5°42' applying)

↣ Mars and Ascendant trine (1°01' applying)

↣ Jupiter and Uranus opposition (0°26' applying) antiparallel

↣ Jupiter and Pluto sextile (2°04' applying)

↣ Jupiter and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (7°49' separating)

↣ Saturn and Equatorial Ascendant conjunction (1°36' applying)

↣ Saturn and Ascendant conjunction (3°06' separating)

↣ Saturn and Midheaven square (0°25' separating)

↣ Uranus and Pluto trine (1°37' separating)

↣ Uranus and Equatorial Ascendant opposition (8°15' separating)

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