When1: 1937
When2: 1968
Who: Maurits C. Escher [Escher, Maurits C.]
What: painter
Where: Netherlands
works\ Metamorphosis I [1937]; Sky and Water I [1938]; Sky and Water II [1938]; Day and Night [1938]; Regular Division of the Plane with Asymmetric Congruent Polygons [1941]; Drawing Hands [1948]; Gravity [1952]; Ascending and Descending [1953]; Relativity [1953]; Circle Limit I [1955]; Circle Limit II [1959]; Circle Limit III [1959]; Circle Limit IV [1960]; Regular Division of the Plane [1958]; Up and Down [1961]; Waterfall [1961]; Möbius Strip I [1963]; Metamorphosis III [1967]
Detail: He lived 1898 to 1972 and etched lithographs and woodcuts with scenes impossible in three-dimensional space or with opposite-shape tilings. He used the 17 symmetries available in the plane {wallpaper group, Escher}. He also represented hyperbolic space by projection onto plane.
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