Born in the Netherlands in 1898, Maurits Cornelis Escher was originally enrolled in the School for Architecture and Decorative Arts in Haarlem with the intention of becoming an architect. ''I came ...
In 1954, a young Roger Penrose was attending the International Congress of Mathematicians in Amsterdam when he came across the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher, a Dutch artist and print-maker. Escher’s ...