The album covers of Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" and Carlos Santana "Abraxas" were created by which artist?

Abdul Mati Klarwein (April 1932 – March 2002) was a French painter of German origin. He is best known for his works that have been used on the covers of music albums. His album covers were used on "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis and "Abraxas" by Carlos Santana.

Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany. His mother Elsa Kühne was an opera singer and his father Joseph Klarwein was a Brick Expressionist architect, who later in his life became associated with the Bauhaus movement (1919 - 1933), an art school that promoted a geometric, abstract style featuring little sentiment or emotion and no historical nods.

Klarwein and his family were of Jewish origin. They fled to the British Mandate of Palestine when he was 2 years old, after the rise of Nazi Germany. In 1948 when the territory became Israel, his family traveled to Paris. There Mati studied from 1949 to 1951 with Fernand Léger, and attended the art schools École des Beaux-Arts and Académie Julian. In the early 1960s, he settled for a while in New York, NY. In 1965, he obtained French citizenship with the support of André Malrau, a French novelist, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.

During the '60s, Klarwein's fame grew. In the '70s – '80s, progressive musicians used his artwork for their album covers. He would later focus on landscape paintings. He also painted many commissioned portraits of well known US celebrities and others.

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