Mauritz Cornelis Escher

About the Artist

Maurits Cornelis Escher was born in the Netherlands in 1898 and died in 1972, a modern artist. Trained at a school of architecture and decorative arts, he learned printmaking technique and worked while traveling across European countries including Italy and Switzerland. Escher's artistic world centers on tessellation built on mathematical structure and geometric pattern. Drawing inspiration from Islamic mosaic art in particular, he reinterpreted simple patterns into creative forms through mathematical transformation. His signature works are prints combining mathematical logic with visual illusion, addressing themes such as repetition, cycles, and infinite space, drawing more interest from mathematicians and physicists than from artists. Escher's work uses everyday imagery yet constructs paradoxical spaces unlike reality, stirring an uncanny unease in viewers.