The work of M.C. Escher has inspired artists, mathematicians, and enthusiasts from all over the world for the last century. As a pure artist, he created not with the intent to produce something ‘beautiful’, but rather to evoke wonder. Over the years, his art evolves. In the early years, he often reflected reality, capturing impressions of people or the world around him, sometimes from an unusual perspective. Afterwards, during his time in Italy his work is dominated by warm vistas in beautiful compositions. Later on, his work evolves towards the more typical pieces for which he became well-known. He presents us with a magic mirror, reflecting an alternate reality. Through tessellations, approaches to infinity, three-dimensional representations on a two-dimensional plane, metamorphoses, and playful manipulations of the laws of perspective, he continually challenges our perspective. The artist wants to make us think. And indeed, with wonder we look at his work.

Through this website, we aim to provide you with some insight into his works.

Furthermore, we offer a number of works for sale. All these works are prints from a stone or a woodblock. Importantly, these blocks were made unusable upon his death, meaning there are no posthumous original works. Therefore, all the available works you find on this website are indeed original works, a print from a stone or woodblock, and made before his death in 1972. If you have any questions or would like more information about this, please do not hesitate to contact us. After all, that’s what we’re here for.

Through this link, it is also possible to buy all kinds of fun trinkets in the official webshop of the Escher Foundation.