Introduced and explained by the artist.
Maurits Escher, born June 17 1898 in Leeuwarden, Holland, is one of Europe's most original graphic artists - and an extremely skilled one.
He is, without any doubt, primarily a graphic artist; he has said that most of his life has been spent in making some kind of analytic composition out of his subjects by means of graphic processes such as wood-engraving or lithography.
Yet Escher sees unlimited possibil... >Voir plus
En 1941, cette immense écrivaine, pensant devenir folle, va se jeter dans une rivière les poches pleine de pierres. Avant de mourir, elle écrit à son mari une lettre où elle dit prendre la meilleure décision qui soit.