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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: M. C. Escher, Tsuguharu Foujita, Corwin Clairmont, Lucian Freud, Kathe Kollwitz, Nathaniel Stern, Warrington Colescott, Louis le Brocquy, Istvan Orosz, Stanley William Hayter, Joe Feddersen, Lorenzo Clayton, Hugh Merrill, Julian Stanczak, John Nash, Jacques Hnizdovsky, Mauricio Lasansky, Jane Hammond, Mary Henry, Judith Mason, Kalman Kubinyi, Paul Coldwell, Frans Masereel, Gen Paul, Edith Frohock, Marie Laurencin, Oswaldo Goeldi, Judy Ongg, Gwen Raverat, Charles Ragland Bunnell, Bernard Meninsky, Istvan Horkay, Jessica Meuninck-Ganger, Virginia A. Myers, Julian Trevelyan, Yasuhide Kobashi, Toyen, Irving Amen, Liviusz Gyulai, Bill Fick, Pierre-Yves Tremois, Aart van Dobbenburgh, Bela Kondor. Excerpt: Maurits Cornelis Escher (17 June 1898 - 27 March 1972), usually referred to as M. C. Escher (English pronunciation: , Dutch: ), was a Dutch graphic artist. He is known for his often mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints. These feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, architecture, and tessellations. Maurits Cornelis, nicknamed "Mauk," was born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands, in a house that forms part of the Princessehof Ceramics Museum today. He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman. In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem where he attended primary school and secondary school until 1918. He was a sickly child, and was placed in a special school at the age of seven and failed the second grade. Though he excelled at drawing, his grades were generally poor. He also took carpentry and piano lessons until he was thirteen years old. In 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts. He briefly studied architecture, but he failed a number of subjects (partly due to a persistent skin infection) and swit...
