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M.C. Escher, 1898-1972 : the graphic work / introduction and commentary by the artist ; English translation, John E. Brigham.

Escher, M. C. (Maurits Cornelis), 1898-1972 (artist,, writer of introduction.). Brigham, John E., (translator.).

Summary:

M.C. Escher (1898-1972) was born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972. M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a law of nature.

Record details

ISBN: 9783836529846
ISBN: 383652984X
Physical Description: 95 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
Edition: English edition.
Publisher: Cologne : Taschen, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

General Note:	This title was published in 1959 by Koninklijke Erven J.J. Tijl N.V., Zwolle under the title M.C. Escher "Grafiek en Tekeningen".
Language Note:	In English translated from the Dutch.