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He was the youngest son of the civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman. In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem , where he attended primary and secondary school until 1918.
George Arnold Escher (10 May 1843 – 14 June 1939) was a Dutch civil engineer and a foreign advisor to the Japanese government during the Meiji period. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was the father of the graphic artist M. C. Escher and the geologist Berend George Escher .
Escher's interest in reversible perspectives, as seen in Cube with Magic Ribbons, can also be noted in an earlier work, Convex and Concave, first printed in 1955. [ 2 ] Although the cube framework in Cube with Magic Ribbons by itself is perfectly possible, the interlocking of the "magical" bands within it is impossible.
Escher is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Alfred Escher (1819−1883), a Swiss politician and railway pioneer
4444 Escher, an asteroid named after Maurits Cornelis Escher Escher Wyss (Zürich) , a borough of Zurich Escher Museum , containing the work of Maurits Cornelis Escher
Berend George Escher (4 April 1885 – 11 October 1967) was a Dutch geologist. Escher had a broad interest, but his research was mainly on crystallography , mineralogy and volcanology . He was a pioneer in experimental geology.
He was the youngest son of civil engineer George Arnold Escher and his second wife, Sara Gleichman. He was a sickly child, and was placed in a special school at the age of seven and failed the second grade.[3] In 1903, the family moved to Arnhem where he took carpentry and piano lessons until he was thirteen years old.
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