![]() ![]() ![]() Self-portraits were also are recurring themes, as seen in his iconic lithograph Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935. The Escher family spent a brief period in Uccle in Brussels, where Escher began his ‘impossible reality series’, where two separate realms merge into one, including Still Life and Street, 1937. But in the mid-1930s Escher and his family fled Italy following the rise of Fascism, relocating to a new home in Switzerland.īefore and During the War Hand with Reflecting Sphere, 1935 lithograph By 1929, Escher had established a wider reputation as a commercial artist, holding popular exhibitions in Holland and Switzerland. In Siena, Escher met and fell in love with Jetta Umiker, a Swiss holidaymaker, and the pair married and settled in Rome a year later, going on to have three sons. Influences came from the finely detailed drawings of Leonardo da Vinci and the carefully rendered prints of Albrecht Durer. San Gimignano, Escher, 1922 woodblock print The Influences of Italy and Spain Bonifacio, Corsica, 1928Įscher returning to Italy in 1923, holding his first solo exhibition in Siena, exhibiting a series of prints which revealed exquisite skill and craftsmanship, alongside a preoccupation with repeat pattern. ![]() A year later he travelled around Spain, visiting Madrid, Toledo and Granada, mesmerised by the Islamic repeat patterns in the Moorish 14th century Alhambra. Even so, architectural forms and designs continued to feed into his visual language for the rest of his career.Ī family trip to Italy in 1921 also ignited a close affinity with the landscape, where he created detailed studies of trees and landscapes which he would translate into print designs. Learning the Graphic Arts Self-Portrait, 1929Įscher initially began training to become an architect at the Haarlem School for Architecture and Decorative Arts, but a teacher persuaded him to shift to the graphic arts instead, where he learned to create lithographs and woodblock prints. His family moved to Arnheim in 1903, where Escher began school, although he was deeply unhappy and even described the experience as “hell.”Īs an adolescent he discovered a passion for art which gave him a sense of direction and purpose, and in 1917 began working with his friend Bas Kist to produce a series of prints in the Dutch artist Gert Stegeman’s studio. Born Maurits Cornelis Escher in 1898, Escher was one of five children raised in a well-off family household in the Netherlands. ![]()
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