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Escher
Title: Escher
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Escher
Maurits Cornelis Escher was born on June 17, 1898, in Leeuwarden, Netherlands. His parents were George Arnold Escher and Sarah Gleichman Escher. They had three sons and Maurits, called Mauk for short, was the youngest. The family lived in a big and nice house named "Princessehof," which would later become a museum and hosted exhibitions of M.C. Escher's works.
Young M.C. Escher and his family later moved to Arnhem. He attended elementary and secondary school …showed first 75 words of 559 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 559 total…time, he created his very famous, Castrovalva.
In 1934, Escher and his family went to the seashore, and then Escher and his wife
continued on to Belgium, Ghent, and Bruges. In the meantime, his work was doing well in the US. His print Nonza won third prize at the Exhibition of Contemporary Prints at the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute also purchased the print, which was Escher's first sale to a museum in America.
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