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M. C. Escher

1898 - 1972

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Maurits Cornelis Escher (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmʌurɪts kɔrˈneːlɪs ˈɛɕər]; 17 June 1898 – 27 March 1972) was a Dutch graphic artist who made woodcuts, lithographs, and mezzotints, many of which were inspired by mathematics. Despite wide popular interest, for most of his life Escher was neglected in the art world, even in his native Netherlands. He was 70 before a retrospective exhibition was held. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of M. C. Escher has received more than 4,677,251 page views. His biography is available in 73 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). M. C. Escher is the 5th most popular artist (down from 4th in 2019), the 22nd most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 18th in 2019) and the most popular Dutch Artist.

M. C. Escher is most famous for his drawings of impossible structures, such as animals that are turned inside out or staircases that go up and down at the same time.

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  • 73.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 73

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.77

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARTISTS

Among artists, M. C. Escher ranks 5 out of 125. Before him are Hokusai, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, and Yoko Ono. After him are Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Victor Vasarely, Anders Zorn, Hiroshige, Joseph Beuys, and Yves Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, M. C. Escher ranks 10. Before him are Alvar Aalto, Erich Maria Remarque, Federico García Lorca, Enzo Ferrari, Sergei Eisenstein, and Umm Kulthum. After him are Zhou Enlai, William James Sidis, Stefania Turkewich, Herbert Marcuse, George Gershwin, and C. S. Lewis. Among people deceased in 1972, M. C. Escher ranks 7. Before him are Harry S. Truman, Ip Man, Asta Nielsen, Frederick IX of Denmark, Yasunari Kawabata, and Edward VIII. After him are Maria Goeppert Mayer, J. Edgar Hoover, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Igor Sikorsky, Ezra Pound, and Kwame Nkrumah.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, M. C. Escher ranks 22 out of 1,646. Before him are Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938), Daniel Bernoulli (1700), Pope Adrian VI (1459), Wilhelmina of the Netherlands (1880), Gerard 't Hooft (1946), and Pieter Zeeman (1865). After him are Willem Barentsz (1550), Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852), Johannes Diderik van der Waals (1837), Juliana of the Netherlands (1909), Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor (1165), and Rutger Hauer (1944).

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Among ARTISTS In Netherlands

Among artists born in Netherlands, M. C. Escher ranks 1. After him are Theo van Doesburg (1883), Theo Jansen (1948), Bas Jan Ader (1942), and Joseph Smit (1836).

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