M.C Escher

Maurits Cornells Escher born in 1898-1972,was born in Leevwarden the wether lands after he lived thier for 5 yrs his family moved to Arnhem where Escher spend most of his youth life. when he started failing high school exams his parents right away decided to move him from school After only one week, he informed his father that he would rather study graphic art instead of architecture, as he had shown his drawings and linoleum cuts to his graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, who encouraged him to continue with graphic arts.

Mascot 1917 etching second state

when he finished school he decided to continue with his art and writing Escher traveled extensively though Italy where whom he meet his wife.They got married in the year 1924 they decided to settle in Rome. where they stayed until 1935. During these 11 years, Escher would travel each year throughout Italy, drawing and sketching for the various prints he would make when he returned home.

He was known for making wonderful paintings whitch millions of people enjoyed and seen.During his life time he made 448 lithographs,wood cuts and wood engraving,over 2,000 drawings and sketches.
He would extend his passion for the Regular Division of the Plane, by using some of his drawings as the basis for yet another hobby, carving beech wood spheres.He played with architecture, perspective and impossible spaces.M.C. Escher became fascinated by the regular Division of the Plane, when he first visited the Alhambra, a fourteen century Moorish castle in Granada, Spain in 1922.

Many of these sketches he would later use for various other lithographs and/or woodcuts and wood engravings, for example the background in the lithograph Waterfall stems from his Italian period, or the trees reflecting in the woodcut Puddle, which are the same trees Escher used in his woodcut "Pineta of Calvi", which he made in 1932.