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when and where was Maurits Cornelis Escher born
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898 in a house that forms part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum today, Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands.
what number son was he?
Escher was the fourth and the youngest son. (extra info His father, George Arnold Escher, was a civil engineer and Sara Geleichma, his mother and the second wife. After 5 years, the family moved to Arnhem where Escher spent most of his youth. Mc Escher eventually had attended at the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem after he failed at his high school exams.)
Mc Escher enrolled in School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem, really soon after, only a week, he informed his father that he preferred to study graphic art instead of architecture. Then he saw his works in drawings and linoleum cuts. Then, in 1922, he travelled to Italy and Spain. He was impressed by the architecture and they became a powerful influence on his work.
After graduated from school, he travelled through Italy and met his wife, Jetta Umiker, they married in 1924. They stayed in Rome until 1935, along 11 years, he travelled all over Italy, drawing and sketching for the various prints he would make when he returned home.
Mc Escher became most famous graphic artists with his fascinating works, such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II, and Metamorphosis III, Sky and Water I or Reptiles.
