# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/m-c-escher
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:39:23.888Z

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name: "M. C. Escher"
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description: "He drew staircases that climb forever, hands that sketch themselves into being, and buildings that couldn't stand in three dimensions. Escher turned geometry into optical riddles that feel like glimpsing the code underneath perception."
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deathDate: "1972-03-27"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints rooted in mathematical structure — despite insisting he had no mathematical ability. Early on he sketched insects, lichens, and landscapes, but trips through Italy and Spain shifted his attention to the tilings of the Alhambra and Mezquita, pulling him toward tessellations, impossible objects, and explorations of infinity. The art world ignored him for decades; he was 70 before a retrospective arrived. But scientists noticed: his work spread through technical papers, and in April 1966 Martin Gardner featured him in Scientific American's Mathematical Games column, igniting popular recognition. By the late twentieth century the wider world caught up, and in 1979 Douglas Hofstadter wove him into Gödel, Escher, Bach, the Pulitzer-winning meditation on pattern and meaning.