M. C. Escher

Maurits Cornelis Escher was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints that used mathematics as an inspiration. Despite wide popular interest, Escher was for most of his life neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. 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.