Works by the late German-born artist, including landscapes, portraits, visionary works, and still-lifes. Includes biography.

Mati was a prolific artist whose range encompassed still life paintings, a great many portraits, and a wide variety of landscapes, both real and imagined, as well as the surreal and visionary art …

Abdul Mati Klarwein was born in Hamburg on the 9th of April 1932, to a Jewish architect father from Polish origins, and a German opera singer mother. The three of them fled to Palestine …

Mati Klarwein was born in Hamburg Germany on April 9, 1932. He was named Matthias (hence Mati) after the painter Matthias Grunewald. Later, he added the Arab name Abdul as a gesture …

Mati Klarwein’s place in the history of 20th century art is unique, nestling at the crossroads of painting and music.

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 …

Flight to Egypt (1959-61) Mische Technique (layers of oil and tempera on primed canvas). 58.5 x 98 cm

Mati Klarwein Gallery: Surrealist and visionary art: Bitches Brew (1970). Record album cover art for the Miles Davis album Bitches-Brew.

The Life and Art of Abdul Mati Klarwein, with a gallery of his work. Site approved by, and written with the cooperation of, the Klarwein family.

Since the late 1970's and up until his departure, Abdul Mati Klarwein rescued forsaken paintings from flea markets and thrift stores, buying them for the same price or less of a virgin canvas, …