MADRID, SPAIN.- Surrealist painter Mati Klarwein has died at the age of 70. He designed psychedelic album covers for rock bands and jazz musicians including Santana, Miles Davis and Earth, Wind and Fire. Klarwein was born in Hamburg, Germany, and grew up in Israel after his parents fled the Nazis in 1934. While studying art in Paris in the late 1940s, he took an interest in jazz music and was captivated by the eerie surrealism of Salvador Dali. He later met Dali in the 1970s, when Klarwein's studio in New York drew visits from the Spanish Catalonian artist and prominent personalities such as Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary and others. One of Klarwein's most famous album covers was Santana's "Abraxas," which showed his 1963 painting "The Annunciation," the biblical story in which the archangel Gabriel tells Mary that she will give birth to Jesus.