M. C. Escher, born 6.17.1898, was a Dutch graphic artist known worldwide for his mathematically inspired woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints that feature impossible constructions, exploration of infinity, architecture, and tessellations of the euclidean and hyperbolic plane.

M.C. Escher is the greatest visual artist of the 20th century. Monet, Rodin, Picasso, Degas, Renoir...amateurs!