5 facts about Maurits Cornelis Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher created unique and fascinating artworks that explore and demonstrate a wide range of mathematical ideas. Born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands in 1898, while he was in school, his family planned to continue his father’s construction career. He started his career as a graphic designer, making woodcuts and lithographs. Later, his half-brother, professor …

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24 facts about Torsten Billman

Torsten Edvard Billman (6 May 1909 – 6 April 1989) was a Swedish performer who worked as a printmaker, illustrator, and buon fresco painter. He counts as one of the 20th century’s premier wood-engravers. The poet Gunnar Ekelöf wrote not quite Torsten Billman: “To those, who bearing in mind the word art visualise large, magnificent, …

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