MC Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in the Dutch province of

Friesland on June 17, 1898. He was the youngest of three

sons. From 1912 to 1918 Escher attended a secondary

school in Arnhem. In 1919 he attended another school

called Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Art.

He only studied architecture briefly. He failed a number of

classes, partly because of a skin infection he had. So he switched to decorative arts. Escher's

teacher ,who helped him the most, was named Samuel Jessurun De Mesquita. He left school in

1922 and remained friends with Samuel.

Two years after school Escher married Jetta Umiker in Italy. They settled down in Rome until

1935 when being under Mussolini became unbearable. While they lived in Rome they had a son

who was named after Escher's father, Giorgio Arnaldo Escher. The family moved to Switzerland.

Escher was unhappy with the landscape in Switzerland so they moved again in 1937 to Ukkel.

But World War II forced the family two move once more to Baarn, the Netherlands where

Escher lived until 1970.

His better known pieces came from around this time because the weather in the Netherlands

gave him more time to focus on his art. In 1962 Escher had to undergo surgery so there were no

new art pieces from that time. In 1970 his art became more noticed. In the same year Escher

went to a retirement home for artists ,in Laren in the northern Netherlands, called Rosa-Spier

house. He died on March 27, 1972.

Work Cited

"Maurits Cornelius Escher." An introduction to art history. Artinthepicture.com. .