Biography of m.c. escher

M. C. Escher, otherwise known as Maurits Cornelis Escher, carried many titles during his career as an artist. Often he was, and still is, referred to as a Specialist in Optical Art, Master of Symmetry, Dutch Engraver, Dutch Graphic Artist, Dutch Illustrator and Dutch Mathematician. All these titles hold true to the diversity of this man's style. His passions, or addictions as he so often called them, focused on tessellation (inter linking figurative work) and regular plane division.

Escher, born to a civil engineer June 17, 1898, was encouraged by his family at a young age to pursue an education in Architectural Arts. His lack of interest and poor grades led him in a different direction with his artistic talents. It was not until he reached age twenty-one that he discovered his true calling: Graphic Art. From then on, his success story writes itself. He taught himself in the areas of math and science through the study of technical papers in order to achi

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Art : Escher

The Life of M. C. Escher

Born in 1898 in the Dutch province of Friesland, Maurits Cornelis Escher was the son of a respected civil engineer. During his early years at school, Escher displayed a passion for drawing but seemed disinterested in mathematics and other subjects. He never officially graduated from secondary school.

Escher and his family moved to Oosterbeek, Holland when he was nineteen. He became increasingly interested in literature and began writing poetry. The next year, he matriculated at the Higher Technology School in Delft where he began to study architecture. While he was able to defer his military service so that he could study, Escher grew ill and was not able to keep up with his school work. So, in 1919, he decided that it was finally time to join the military. However, his sickness prevented him from passing the physical exam, and he, in turn, was not allowed to continue his studies in Delft.

By this time, Escher had begun experimenting

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M. C. Escher

Dutch graphic artist (1898–1972)

Maurits Cornelis Escher (;^[1]Dutch:[ˈmʌurɪtskɔrˈneːlɪsˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite bred popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world.

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, bekräftelse Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crysta