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Mati Klarwein (Matthias Klarwein) was born on 9 April, 1932 in Hamburg, Germany, is a French painter. Discover Mati Klarwein's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 70 years old?

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Age 70 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 9 April, 1932
Birthday 9 April
Birthplace Hamburg, Germany
Date of death 2002
Died Place Deià, Majorca, Spain
Nationality Germany

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1932

Abdul Mati Klarwein (April 9, 1932 – March 7, 2002) was a French painter of German origin best known for his works used on the covers of music albums.

Mati Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany.

His mother Elsa Kühne was an opera singer and his father Joseph Klarwein was a Brick Expressionist architect and later with the Bauhaus movement.

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.

1948

In 1948, the family fled to Paris when Israel declared independence and Arab nations invaded the country.

1949

In Paris, Mati studied from 1949 to 1951 with Fernand Léger, and attended the art schools École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian.

1950

Klarwein added "Abdul" (which means "servant" in Arabic) to his name in the late 1950s to express his sentiments about the hostility between Jews and Muslims in the Middle East: he felt that to understand each other better, every Jew should adopt a Muslim first name, and vice versa.

1956

In 1956 he met Kitty Lillaz, and traveled with her around the world, including Tibet, India, Bali, North Africa, Turkey, Europe and the Americas.

1960

In the early 1960s, he settled for a while in New York City, meeting Jimi Hendrix.

Klarwein is still best known for his art of the 1960s and 1970s, with its clear links to surrealism, popular psychedelic imagery, ethnic and exotic themes, erotic, 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 art and culture magazine Juxtapoz, quoting an unnamed source, wrote that Klarwein was "often considered 'the man literally responsible for every great, legendary record cover you've ever seen—if he didn't do it, he inspired it.'" Despite the hyperbole of this claim, it is true that many people would immediately recognize his vivid, colorful style from many album covers.

During the '60s Klarwein's fame grew and some of the decade's most progressive musicians used his artwork for their album covers.

1961

At a New York exhibition in 1961, organized by Lillaz for the unveiling of the painting Flight to Egypt Klarwein met Salvador Dalí for the first time, whom he called a spiritual father.

The same year he met his wife Sofia Klarwein.

Among other painters he met more often was Arik Brauer.

Klarwein's painting Annunciation from 1961 was seen in reproduction by the musician Carlos Santana, who subsequently used it 1970 as the cover image of his band Santana's second album Abraxas''.

1963

In his painting Grain of Sand (1963–1965), many disparate images are combined together in one massive, yet oddly coherent work.

Klarwein's own words illuminate the work: "I projected it as a sort of painted musical comedy movie with a Sanskrit swinging cast of thousands, starring Marilyn Monroe, Anita Ekberg, Ray Charles, Pablo Picasso, Brigitte Bardot, Roland Kirk, Cannonball Adderley, Ahmed Abdul Malik, Wonder Woman, Delacroix's Orphan Girl at the Cemetery, Litri and his bullfighters, Lawrence of Arabia, Socrates, Dalí, Rama, Vishnu, Ganesh, the Zork and a Milky Way of Playmates."

1965

In 1965, he obtained French citizenship with the support of André Malraux.

During his time in Saint-Tropez he met Ernst Fuchs, who would have a profound influence on his technique, teaching him the Mischtechnik.

Much of Klarwein's most famous work is inspired by surrealism and pop culture, but also reflects his interest in deities and symbolism.

1969

Klarwein produced comparably striking designs for the covers of two Miles Davis albums, Bitches Brew (1969) and Live-Evil (1971).

1970

Klarwein created the cover for the 2 February 1970 Time magazine issue, showing the face of Barry Commoner, projecting a powerful image of ecology, which took the stage for the first time in the public eye.

His painting Zonked (1970) was originally planned as the cover image for Betty Davis's self-titled album, and was later used for the Last Poets album Holy Terror in 1993.

In the mid-1970s, Klarwein began a series of paintings which he referred to as "real-estate paintings" or "inscapes".

In the late 1970s he collaborated with trumpeter Jon Hassell for a couple of albums on Brian Eno's Ambient label; these albums used several of Klarwein's "inscapes" on their covers.

The association of his images with these successful and widely admired musicians of the time, made Klarwein's work known outside the circle of lovers of contemporary art.

1971

In 1971 his cover was on the album Last Days and Time by Earth, Wind & Fire.

In 1971 he went to Hamburg and created set paintings for the film Herman Hesse's Steppenwolf.

1973

Many of these paintings, and others, were included in Klarwein's first book Milk n' Honey (1973).

1974

A cover he made for Jimi Hendrix was used on a single in 1974 and for a compilation in 2010.

1980

In the 1980s, Klarwein began to focus on landscape compositions, which were detailed, had different perspectives and often included floric textures.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Klarwein would occasionally search for cheap paintings at flea markets and "improve" them, painting over them or adding things at his whim.

Klarwein made over a hundred of these "improved paintings" throughout his career.

1983

In 1983, he published Inscapes Real-Estate Paintings, which included an interview where Klarwein said about his work, "Some visual artworks are made to be talked about more than to be seen, others are made to be seen more than to be talked about. I think I belong in the latter category."

Klarwein also painted many commissioned portraits, including Robert Graves, Noël Coward, Juliette Binoche, Richard Gere, Michael Douglas and Brigitte Bardot.

2002

He died of cancer on March 7, 2002, in Deià, on the Spanish island of Majorca.