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Mati Klarwein (born April 9, 1932 in Hamburg ; † March 7, 2002 in Deià , Mallorca ) was a German painter .
Life
At the time of Klarwein's birth, his father Ossip was working as the main design architect in the Fritz Högers architectural office . His mother was the opera singer Elsa Kühne, married. Clear wine. After completing his father's current assignment - the Expressionist Church on Hohenzollernplatz - on March 19, 1933, the family emigrated to the British mandate of Palestine , as they had no future as Jews in Germany. In 1948 the family traveled to Paris, where Mati Klarwein began his training at the École des Beaux-Arts . He later learned from Fernand Léger and then from Ernst Fuchs , who influenced his work.
He was best known for designing the album covers of Miles Davis Bitches Brew and Carlos Santanas Abraxas . He designed the pictures of many other record covers (including Jon Hassell and the Last Poets ) and was a sought-after portrait painter.
In some aspects his style is reminiscent of his painter colleague and friend Ernst Fuchs , but ultimately eludes any further description. The sometimes chosen label psychedelic art contradicts the painter's statement that he does not paint under the influence of drugs.
Web links
- Literature by and about Mati Klarwein in the catalog of the German National Library
- German-language homepage of the artist
- English-language homepage of the artist (many pictures with higher resolution)
- Article about Klarwein's landscapes
- Mati Klarwein: 'The most famous unknown painter in the world ...'
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Ernst-Erik Pfannschmidt in his letter to Eckhardt (Ekhart) Berckenhagen, June 29, 1977 (PDF; 25 kB) to the exhibition on the occasion of Höger's 100th birthday in the art library of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin-Staatliche Museen Berlin was preparing. ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Myra Warhaftig ( Hebrew מירה ווארהפטיג): You laid the foundation stone. Life and work of German-speaking Jewish architects in Palestine 1918–1948 . Wasmuth, Berlin / Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-8030-0171-4 , p. 295.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Clear wine, Mati |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klarwein, Abdul Mati |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 9, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 2002 |
| Place of death | Deià |