Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher, was born in Leeuarden (Netherlands) on June 17, 1898 and he died on March 27, 1972 with 73 years. He was the youngest son of George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

When he was young he had bad marks except in drawing. In 1919, he attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts.  

In 1922 he travelled to Spain and Italy where he met his wife, Jetta Umiker. Of all his trips, Escher remained very impressed by the Alhambra (one of his sources of inspiration).

Though he didn’t have a mathematics education, he could fuse the artistic drawing with the mathematics. His works had a strong mathematical component and he was drawing impossible objects as Necker cube and the Penrose Triangle.

I have chosen Escher because he could fuse two areas that for many people are unamicable. In addition he changed totally the way of seeing the art.

 

 Laia Coma