M.C Escher

Jacob Anguiano

M.C Escher Biography

Maurits Cornelis Esccher (called Mauk for short) was the youngest son of three. M.C was born on

June 17, 1898 living at Leeuwarden, Holland, where M.C father, George Escher, served as a chief

engineer for a government bureau. The family lived in a grand house named “Princeehoff” which is now

a museum of M.C Escher art work. M.C and his family moved to a place called Arnhem that’s where he

attended elementary and secondary school, his grades were always poor except in drawing. His art teacher

at that time took and interest at Escher talent and and taught him how to make linocuts. By 1913 Escher

attended in a religious school ( which Escher wasn’t very religious). Their he found a friend that

motivated him to create his first linoleum cut works. In 1917 M.C Escher became very involved with

literature and began to write some of his own poems and essays. The following year 1918 M.C began

private lessons in architecture at the’ Higher Technology School’. He managed to get a deferrement on

military service in order to study, but his health prevented him from keeping up. That for he was rejected

from the military services and couldn’t continue with school. After this difficult times is where M.C

began doing many drawings, and started using wood cuts. It was also at this time that his work began to

receive favorable reviews in the media. In April 1922 M.C Escher and a couple of his friends moved to

Italy by ship. He did a great deal of drawings their, he spent all his time roaming the Italian countryside,

drawing landscape, plants, and even insects. In 1936 M.C traveled to Spain and became intrigued by the

Moorish mosaics. His interest in the mosaics inspired his studies in transformation geometry, focusing on

the regular divisions of the plane, also known as tessellation, tessellation are a certain type of pattern....