Klaus Voormann (b. 1938) is an artist and musician best known for his GRAMMY® Award winning illustration for The Beatles album cover, Revolver.
Klaus Voormann’s illustration and collage of the seminal 1966 album, Revolver, by The Beatles.
Voormann met The Beatles in 1960 while an art student during the band’s residency at the Kaiserkeller Club in the Reeperbahn district in Hamburg, Germany. Voormann, with his girlfriend, Astrid Kirchherr and friend Jürgen Vollmer befriended the young Beatles, still in their rough and rowdy days, years before Beatlemania would sweep the world.
Klaus Voorman’s illustration, (ca. 1996) of Hamburg’s Reeperbahn district, documenting where the pre-fab 4 lived, worked and played.
Post Beatles, Voormann remained friends with the individual members and played bass guitar on solo records for all 4 including John Lennon’s Imagine and George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. During the 1970s, Voormann was a prolific and in demand session musician, playing on albums for Carly Simon, James Taylor, Harry Nilsson, Peter Frampton, badfinger and Lou Reed on his career making Transformer.
Over the years, we have collaborated with Klaus Voormann on three signed and numbered prints including this beautiful and stylized illustration of John Lennon which was created in December 1980 as a tribute to his fallen friend.
Historically, a handful of people have been referred to as a “fifth Beatle” including Pete Best, Stuart Sutcliffe, George Martin and Klaus Voormann. This is a rare opportunity to acquire a rare piece of art from this incredible and sought after artist.
Klaus Voormann, London, ca. 1966.