Monday, January 23, 2012

Klaus Voormann's Beatles Art

There's always fan art of anything you can think of. Some of it's absolutely stellar and others...well...not so much. Unfortunately a lot of the Beatles fan art are either just weird (such as putting the Beatles' faces on the bodies of some punk kids from the 90s) or just plain, sorry-I-tried-to-make-it-look-like-them. However, this wins as one of the best I've seen. It fits, as the artist himself knew the Beatles personally in their Hamburg days, as seen in the picture above. Klaus Voormann, who was Astrid Kircherr's (the woman who introduced the mop-top to the boys) girlfriend at the time, lived and worked in Hamburg, Germany and remained pretty close  to the Beatles throughout their time here. He also spent some quality time drawing them, giving us Beatle fanatics a rare and personal glimpse of them before Beatlemania hit in 1963. This is pretty much all I've seen of his work, but you should look up his other stuff and see if it wins like these two drawings do!

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