While there, Space Ghost tried ( and failed ) to show he was " hip " to rap, saying his favorite rapper was M. C. Escher.

17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972 ), usually referred to as M. C. Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist.

He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman.

The young couple settled down in Rome where their first son, Giorgio ( George ) Arnaldo Escher, named after his grandfather, was born.

Escher, who had been very fond of and inspired by the landscapes in Italy, was decidedly unhappy in Switzerland, and in 1937, the family moved again, to Uccle, a suburb of Brussels, Belgium.

Although Escher did not have mathematical training — his understanding of mathematics was largely visual and intuitive — Escher's work had a strong mathematical component, and more than a few of the worlds which he drew are built around impossible objects such as the Necker cube and the Penrose triangle.

Escher was awarded the Knighthood of the Order of Orange Nassau in 1955.

Escher printed Metamorphosis I in 1937, which was a beginning part of a series of designs that told a story through the use of pictures.

A planned series of lectures in North America in 1962 was cancelled due to an illness, but the illustrations and text for the lectures, written out in full by Escher, were later published as part of the book Escher on Escher.

* Asteroid 4444 Escher was named in Escher's honor in 1985.

The name " quine " was coined by Douglas Hofstadter, in his popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, in the honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine ( 1908 – 2000 ), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference, and in particular for the following paradox-producing expression, known as Quine's paradox:

The concept of a strange loop was proposed and extensively discussed by Douglas Hofstadter in Gödel, Escher, Bach, and is further elaborated in Hofstadter's book I Am a Strange Loop, published in 2007.

* Graphic artist M. C. Escher moved to Arnhem when he was five and spent most of his youth there.

Lake Zurich is formed by the river Linth, which, rising in the glaciers of the Tödi Range in Glarus, which was diverted by the Escher canal ( completed in 1811 ) into the Lake Walen, there by means of the Linth canal ( completed in 1816 ), its waters are carried to the east end of the Lake of Zurich.

Josef Escher ( 17 September 1885-9 December 1954 ) was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council ( 1950-1954 ).

That same year, the Eames Foundation hired Los Angeles architectural firm Escher GuneWardena to develop a plan for the house, one that would restore and preserve the house as it was in 1988.

Another theory asserts the name was chosen based on the frequency of English alphabet letters due in part to the then current popularity of Douglas Hofstadter's 1980 book Gödel, Escher, Bach which used ETAOIN, etc., to capitalize on popularity and current hip-ness.

Tessellations frequently appeared in the art of M. C. Escher, who was inspired by studying the Moorish use of symmetry in the Alhambra tiles during a visit in 1922.

At an Escher conference in Rome in 1985, Roger Penrose said that he had been greatly inspired by Escher's work when he and his father discovered both the tri-bar structure and the continuous steps, although Escher, in the 1950s, had not yet drawn any impossible figures and was not aware of their existence.

While the Penroses credited Escher in their article, Escher himself noted in a letter to his son in January 1960 that he was:

* 1898 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist ( d. 1972 )

* 1972 – M. C. Escher, Dutch artist ( b. 1898 )

* Relativity ( M. C. Escher ), a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher

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** M. C. Escher, Dutch artist ( d. 1972 )

* M. C. Escher, Dutch artist known for his mathematically inspired works

* Berend George Escher ( 1885 − 1967 ), a Dutch geologist

* M. C. Escher ( 1898 − 1972 ), a Dutch graphic artist

* Rudolf George Escher ( 1912 − 1980 ), a Dutch composer and music theoretician ( the Dutch Wikipedia article )

* Regular division of the plane, a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936.

Throughout the 1960s, Reutersvärd sent several letters to Escher to express his admiration for his work, but the Dutch artist failed to respond.

Dolphins also known as a Dolphins in Phosphorescent Sea is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.

Castrovalva is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in February 1930.

The Bridge is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in March 1930.

Atrani, Coast of Amalfi is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in August 1931.

Still Life with Spherical Mirror is a lithography print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in November, 1934.

Hand with Reflecting Sphere also known as Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror is a lithograph print by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in January 1935.

Regular Division of the Plane is a series of drawings by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which began in 1936.

Still Life and Street is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in March, 1937.

Metamorphosis I is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher which was first printed in May, 1937.

Metamorphosis II is a woodcut print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher.