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 life
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on 17 June 1898 in the Netherlands, in a
house that forms part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum today. He was
the youngest son of the civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second
wife, Sara Gleichman. In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem, where he
attended primary and secondary school until 1918.He was a sickly child
and was placed in a special school at the age of seven; he had failed the
second grade. Although he excelled at drawing, his grades were generally
poor. He took carpentry and piano lessons until he was thirteen years old.

In 1918, he went to the Technical College of Delft. From 1919 to 1922,

Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts,
learning drawing and the art of making woodcuts. He briefly studied
architecture, but he failed a number of subjects (due partly to a persistent
skin infection) and switched to decorative arts, studying under the graphic
artist Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita.
Art
 biografy
He was a Dutch artist known for his woodcut prints, mezzotint
prints and drawings, consisting of impossible figures,
tessellations, and imaginary worlds