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M. C. Escher

M. C. Escher
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M. C. Escher in 1971
Born Maurits Cornelis Escher
(1898-06-17)17 June 1898
Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Died 27 March 1972(1972-03-27) (aged 73)
Laren, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Education Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts
Known for Drawing, printmaking
Notable work Relativity, Waterfall, Hand with Reflecting Sphere
Awards Knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛʃər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972), or commonly M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist who made mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints.

His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations. Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, Harold Coxeter and crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and conducted his own research into tessellation.

Early in his career, he drew inspiration from nature, making studies of insects, landscapes, and plants such as lichens, all of which he used as details in his artworks. He traveled in Italy and Spain, sketching buildings, townscapes, architecture and the tilings of the Alhambra and the Mezquita of Cordoba, and became steadily more interested in their mathematical structure.


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