Escher Foundation ), and transferred into this entity virtually all of Escher's unique work as well as hundreds of his original prints.

Escher Company B. V. of Baarn, Netherlands, which licenses use of the copyrights on all of Escher's art and on his spoken and written text, and also controls the trademarks.

* Escher Web Sketch, a java applet with interactive tools for drawing in all 17 plane symmetry groups

Thanks to his numerous political posts and his significant role in the foundation and management of the Swiss Northeastern Railway, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Credit Suisse, Swiss Life and the Gotthard Railway, Escher had an unmatched influence on Switzerland ’ s political and economic development in the 19th century.

In 1935, the political climate in Italy ( under Mussolini ) became totally unacceptable to Escher.

In addition to his academic pursuits, the radical-liberal Escher was politically active: he met regularly with former student friends in the « Academic Wednesday Society » to discuss topical political issues and wrote a number of articles for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

He was now able to play an active part in political debates of the time, most notably the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Swiss Confederation, a position on which Escher played a prominent role in the anti-Jesuit camp.

Thanks to his many political posts and his position as one of the founders of the Swiss Northeastern Railway ( 1852 / 53 ) and Credit Suisse ( 1856 ), Escher commanded an unusual amount of power.

In addition to personal attacks from political opponents, Escher faced serious health problems.

However, this did not prevent Escher from fulfilling his political and business obligations whenever he could.

McNally and Goldberg ( 1997 ), as has Romme and Escher ( 1994, 1998 ) emphasised the importance of the individuals own coping resources and beliefs in developing effective intervention strategies.

After 1953, Escher became a lecturer at many organizations.

" The most notable aberration, however, is Stearns Hall, which has been described as " Barbie meets Escher " for its angular, post-modern style and its shrunken scale ( it is supposedly built at 90 % of scale, an idea supported by the feeling of claustrophobia often encountered there ).

Escher for Belvedere, a lithograph in which a boy seated at the foot of the building holds an impossible cube.

In 1901, Queen Emma moved to Lange Voorhout Palace, today's Escher Museum, while Queen Wilhelmina and her husband Prince Hendrik remained at Noordeinde.

Escher had been fascinated by the glowing outlines of ocean waves breaking at night and this image depicts the outlines made by a school of dolphins swimming and breaching ahead of the bow of a ship.

It was begun by Marius Romme, a professor of social psychiatry at the University of Limburg in Maastricht, the Netherlands ; and Sandra Escher, a science journalist, who began this work after being challenged by a voice hearer as to why they could not accept the reality of her voice hearing experience.

Romme and Escher ( 2000 ) have developed a method they call " Making sense of voices " to explore the problems in the life of the voice hearer that lie at the roots of the hearing voices experience.

It also marked the return after two years in New Jersey to the convention's long time venue at the Hilton Rye Town, referred to by the fans as " The Escher Hilton " due to its construction which includes the infamous " Transdimensional Warp Corridor " that allows the attendees to walk from the fourth floor to the function areas on the seventh floor without needing to use any stairs or elevators.

In recent years Lautner's work has undergone a significant critical reappraisal with the 1999 publication of Alan Hess and Alan Weintraub's " The Architecture of John Lautner " ( Rizzoli ), and a 2008 exhibit at the Hammer Museum curated by architect Frank Escher and architectural historian Nicholas Olsberg.

It features extensive contemporary and archival images of many of Lautner's key buildings ( most of which are not open to the public ), excerpts from Lautner's 1986 oral history recordings, interviews with Lautner's family, colleagues and clients, Lautner archivist Frank Escher and longtime Lautner fan Frank Gehry, as well as a moving on-site reunion of the three surviving principals who built the Chemosphere — Lautner's assistant Guy Zebert, original owner Leonard Malin, and builder John de la Vaux ( who was 95 years old at the time of filming ).

From 1810 onwards he lived at Zürich, with the family of his friend, Conrad Escher von der Linth ( 1767 – 1823 ), a celebrated engineer.

During this period Alfred Escher was taught at home by various tutors, including the theologian Alexander Schweizer, and Oswald Heer, who was to become a paleo-botanist and entomologist.

After graduating from high school, Escher decided to study law at the University of Zurich.

Escher also planned to give lectures at the University of Zurich.

Within a very short space of time competing railway companies were set up, including in 1852-53 the Swiss Northeastern Railway, with Escher at its helm.

Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, published in 1979, discusses the ideas of self-reference and strange loops, drawing on a wide range of artistic and scientific work, including the art of M. C. Escher and the music of J. S. Bach, to illustrate ideas behind Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

Even the financial difficulties involved in the Gotthard project were blamed on Escher by various parties.

Alfred Escher initially favoured a trans-Alpine link via the Lukmanier, he changed his mind and became an advocate of the Gotthard project.

Within philosophy familiar names include Daniel Dennett who writes from a computational systems perspective, John Searle known for his controversial Chinese room, Jerry Fodor who advocates functionalism, and Douglas Hofstadter, famous for writing Gödel, Escher, Bach, which questions the nature of words and thought.

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

* Notable draftsmen of the 20th century include Käthe Kollwitz, Max Beckmann, Jean Dubuffet, Egon Schiele, Arshile Gorky, Paul Klee, Oscar Kokoschka, Alphonse Mucha, M. C. Escher, André Masson, Jules Pascin, and Pablo Picasso.

He is best known for his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, first published in 1979.

Hofstadter's thesis about consciousness, first expressed in Gödel, Escher, Bach ( GEB ) but also present in several of his later books, is that it is an emergent consequence of seething lower-level activity in the brain.

* Masters of Deception: Escher, Dali & the Artists of Optical Illusion 2004 by Al Seckel.

Typical of these references is Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter, which accords the paradox a prominent place in a discussion of self-reference.

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

The art critic Vittorio Sgarbi, however, has compared Tonato's worked to those of Maurits Cornelis Escher.

M. C. Escher is considered a master of lithography, and many of his prints were created using this process.

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.

In 1919, Escher attended the Haarlem School of Architecture and Decorative Arts.

In 1922 Escher left the school, having gained experience in drawing and making woodcuts.

In Italy Escher met Jetta Umiker, whom he married in 1924.