Bibliograph

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

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Label

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

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

M.C. Escher, 1898-1972

Oclc number

956553329

Responsibility statement

introduction and commentary by the artist ; English translation, John E. Brigham

Series statement

Basic art series 2.0

Sub title

the graphic work

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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

M.C. Escher, the graphic work

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