Mcescher Catalogo LR.Pdf
M.C. ESCHER WALLPAPER COLLECTION M.C. ESCHER WALLPAPER COLLECTION BIOGRAPHY fascination for high and low, close drawings and linoleum cuts to his the woodcut Puddle, which are by and far away. The lithograph graphic teacher Samuel Jessurun the same trees Escher used in his Atrani, a small town on the Amal- de Mesquita, who encouraged woodcut “Pineta of Calvi”, which fi Coast was made in 1931, but him to continue with graphic arts. he made in 1932. comes back for example, in his After finishing school, he traveled M.C. Escher became fascinated by masterpiece Metamorphosis I and the regular Division of the Plane, II. when he first visited the Alhambra, M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, a fourteen century Moorish castle made 448 lithographs, woodcuts in Granada, Spain in 1922. and wood engravings and over During the years in Switzerland 2000 drawings and sketches. Like and throughout the Second Wor- some of his famous predecessors, ld War, he vigorously pursued his - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, hobby, by drawing 62 of the total Dürer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher of 137 Regular Division Drawings aurits Cornelis Escher (1898- was left-handed. he would make in his lifetime. 1972) is one of the world’s M Apart from being a graphic artist, Atrani’s lithograph He would extend his passion for most famous graphic artists. His M.C. Escher illustrated books, de- extensively through Italy, where he the Regular Division of the Plane, art is enjoyed by millions of peo- signed tapestries, postage stamps met his wife Jetta Umiker, whom by using some of his drawings as ple all over the world, as can be and murals.
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