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'Abdul Mati Klarwein' (April 9 1932 – March 7 2002) was a painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.
Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany. His family was of Jewish origin and fled to Palestine when he was two years old after the rise of Nazi Germany. Klarwein grew up in Palestine and Israel but subsequently travelled widely and lived in many different countries. He died in Deià on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
One of Klarwein's paintings, ''Annunciation'' (1961), was seen in reproduction by the musician Carlos Santana and subsequently used by his band Santana for the cover image of their second album ''Abraxas'' (1970). In the following years Klarwein produced comparably striking designs for the covers of two Miles Davis albums, ''Bitches Brew'' (1969) and ''Live-Evil'' (1971), as well as a powerful portrait of Jimi Hendrix. His painting ''Zonked'' (1970) would later be used as the cover of a Last Poets album ''Holy Terror'' (1995). The association of his images with these very successful and widely admired countercultural musicians made Klarwein's work known outside the circle of lovers of contemporary art.
Klarwein added "Abdul" to his name in the 1960's to express his sentiments about the Middle East crisis: he felt that to understand each other better, every Jew should adopt a Muslim first name, and vice-versa. He is not known to have converted to Islam.
Klarwein is still best known for his art of the 1960s and 1970s, with its clear links to surrealism (Klarwein studied with the Viennese Fantastic Realist Ernst Fuchs), popular psychedelic imagery, and religious art from a number of different traditions. He also worked more conventionally across a variety of genres including still life, landscape, and portrait.
★ The Artists.org listing
★ MatiKlarwein.com
★ MatiKlarwein.com
★ The Manic Landscape: Mati Klarwein
Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany. His family was of Jewish origin and fled to Palestine when he was two years old after the rise of Nazi Germany. Klarwein grew up in Palestine and Israel but subsequently travelled widely and lived in many different countries. He died in Deià on the Spanish island of Mallorca.
One of Klarwein's paintings, ''Annunciation'' (1961), was seen in reproduction by the musician Carlos Santana and subsequently used by his band Santana for the cover image of their second album ''Abraxas'' (1970). In the following years Klarwein produced comparably striking designs for the covers of two Miles Davis albums, ''Bitches Brew'' (1969) and ''Live-Evil'' (1971), as well as a powerful portrait of Jimi Hendrix. His painting ''Zonked'' (1970) would later be used as the cover of a Last Poets album ''Holy Terror'' (1995). The association of his images with these very successful and widely admired countercultural musicians made Klarwein's work known outside the circle of lovers of contemporary art.
Klarwein added "Abdul" to his name in the 1960's to express his sentiments about the Middle East crisis: he felt that to understand each other better, every Jew should adopt a Muslim first name, and vice-versa. He is not known to have converted to Islam.
Klarwein is still best known for his art of the 1960s and 1970s, with its clear links to surrealism (Klarwein studied with the Viennese Fantastic Realist Ernst Fuchs), popular psychedelic imagery, and religious art from a number of different traditions. He also worked more conventionally across a variety of genres including still life, landscape, and portrait.
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External links
★ The Artists.org listing
★ MatiKlarwein.com
★ MatiKlarwein.com
★ The Manic Landscape: Mati Klarwein
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