Mati klarwein poster
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As through-lines go, this is one of the best, if one of the most random: Salvador Dalí, Richard Gere, Michael Douglas, Jimi Hendrix, Ernst Fuchs, JFK, Brigitte Bardot, Leonard Bernstein and Andy Warhol. In some way or other, these boldface names are all related to Mati Klarwein, a man who once was, in Warhol’s words, “The most famous unknown painter in the world.”
He was largely unknown because he chose to work on album covers rather than pursue a painting career, and while he produced more than 50 ground-breaking covers – most famously for Miles Davis and Santana – he was until recently something of a ghost-like figure. It is only in the last ten years or so that his work has started to be appreciated, largely because it has started to be shown in the kind of galleries that weren’t available to him in the Seventies and Eighties. Klarwein died in 2002 and while he didn’t live to feel the critical acclaim that has since come his way, his legacy is being redefined on an almost weekly basis.
‘Artist And Model’ (1959)
Fusing sacred and profane, Klarwein has become renowned ov
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Mati Klarwein
German painter
Mati Klarwein | |
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Klarwein in 1990 | |
| Born | Matthias Klarwein (1932-04-09)9 April 1932 Hamburg, Weimar Republic |
| Died | 7 March 2002(2002-03-07) (aged 69) Deià, Majorca, Spain |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Académie Julian, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| Known for | Painting, Drawing, Film |
| Notable work | Annunciation (1961) Grain of Sand (1963–65) Bitches Brew (1969) Aleph Sanctuary (1963–70) |
| Movement | Surrealism, Fantastic Realism, Visionary art |
Abdul Mati Klarwein (9 April 1932 – 7 March 2002) was a German painter best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.[1]
Personal life
Mati Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Weimar Republic. His mother Elsa Kühne was an opera singer and his father Joseph Klarwein was a Brick Expressionist architect and later with the Bauhaus movement.[2] His father was Jewish and his family fled to the British Mandate of Palestine when he was two years old, after the rise of Nazi Germany. In 1948, after his parents divorce Mati and
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Mati Klarwein - Biography
Mati as a young boy in the thirties
Matias Klarwein was born on the 9th of April 1932 in Hamburg, Germany. His father Joseph (born Yusef Ben Menachem), was an architect working with the Bauhaus movement and his mother Elsa (born Elsa Kühne), was an opera singer. Mati emigrated with his parents to Israel (then Palestine) in 1934. During the formation of the new Israel, his father won the competition to construct the parliament building: the Knesset in Tel Aviv.
1956 ID for the Academy Julian
At the age of 17, Mati moved to Paris with his mother where he studied painting at the Academie Julian, the Beaux Arts, as well as with Fernand Leger (1949-51) and Ernst Fuchs (1952-54) with whom he learned the mixed technique of the 16th century Flemish school. He made several other fundamental friendships in France with such personalities as Kitty Lillaz, Boris Vian, and Salvador Dali. Mati obtained French nationality in 1965 with the help of Mrs. André Malraux.
Mati's work included drawing, painting,
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