As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.

Graphic artist extraordinaire                          

Selected Works:


Trees, ink - 1920
St. Bavo's, Haarlem, ink - 1920
Flor de Pascua - The Easter Flower, woodcut/book illustrations - 1921
Eight Heads, woodcut - 1922
Dolphins also known as Dolphins in Phosphorescent Sea, woodcut - 1923
Tower of Babel, woodcut - 1928
Street in Scanno, Abruzzi, lithograph - 1930
Castrovalva, lithograph - 1930
The Bridge, lithograph - 1930
Palizzi, Calabria, woodcut - 1930
Pentedattilo, Calabria, lithograph - 1930
Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, lithograph - 1931
Ravello and the Coast of Amalfi, lithograph - 1931
Covered Alley in Atrani, Coast of Amalfi, wood engraving - 1931
Phosphorescent Sea, lithograph - 1933
Still Life with Spherical Mirror, lithograph - 1934
Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, lithograph - 1935
Inside St. Peter's, wood engraving - 1935
Portrait of G.A. Escher, lithograph - 1935
“Hell”, lithograph, - copied from a painting by Hieronymus Bosch - 1935
Regular Division of the Plane, series of drawings that continued until the 1960s - 1936
Still Life and Street - His first impossible reality, woodcut - 1937
Metamorphosis I, woodcut - 1937
Day and Night, woodcut - 1938
Cycle, lithograph - 1938
Sky and Water I, woodcut - 1938
Sky and Water II, lithograph - 1938
Metamorphosis II, woodcut - 1939–1940
Verbum - Earth, Sky and Water, lithograph - 1942
Reptiles, lithograph - 1943
Ant, lithograph - 1943
Encounter, lithograph - 1944
Doric Columns, wood engraving - 1945
Three Spheres I, wood engraving - 1945
Magic Mirror, lithograph - 1946
Three Spheres II, lithograph - 1946
Another World Mezzotint also known as Other World Gallery, mezzotint - 1946
Eye, mezzotint - 1946
Another World also known as Other World, wood engraving and woodcut - 1947
Crystal, mezzotint - 1947
Up and Down also known as High and Low, lithograph - 1947
Drawing Hands, lithograph - 1948
Dewdrop, mezzotint - 1948
Stars, wood engraving - 1948
Double Planetoid, wood engraving - 1949
Order and Chaos - Contrast, lithograph - 1950
Rippled Surface, woodcut and linoleum cut - 1950
Curl-up, lithograph - 1951
House of Stairs, lithograph - 1951
House of Stairs II, lithograph - 1951
Puddle, woodcut - 1952
Gravitation, - 1952
Dragon, woodcut lithograph and watercolor - 1952
Cubic Space Division, lithograph - 1952
Relativity, lithograph - 1953
Tetrahedral Planetoid, woodcut - 1954
Compass Rose - Order and Chaos II, lithograph - 1955
Convex and Concave, lithograph - 1955
Three Worlds, lithograph - 1955
Print Gallery, lithograph - 1956
Mosaic II, lithograph - 1957
Cube with Magic Ribbons, lithograph - 1957
Belvedere, lithograph - 1958
Sphere Spirals, woodcut - 1958
Ascending and Descending, lithograph - 1960
Waterfall, lithograph - 1961
Möbius Strip II - Red Ants woodcut - 1963
Knot, pencil and crayon - 1966
Metamorphosis III, woodcut - 1967–1968
Snakes, woodcut - 1969.                                              

Mother Sara Gleichman
Father  George Arnold Escher
Jetta Umiker in 1924, three sons.                                              

Awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau.                                              

Was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
Nicknamed Mauk.