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Dutch graphic artist (–)

Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈmʌurɪtskɔrˈneːlɪsˈɛɕər]; 17 June &#;– 27 March ) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics.

Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands.

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He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world.

His work features mathematical objects and operations including impossible objects, explorations of infinity, reflection, symmetry, perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, and tessellations.

Although Escher believed he had no mathematical ability, he interacted with the mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose, and Donald Coxeter, and the crystallographerFriedrich