They settled in Rome, where they stayed until 1935. After finishing school, he traveled extensively through Italy, where he met his wife Jetta Umiker. He was born in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands, as the fourth and youngest son of a civil engineer. Escher illustrated books, designed tapestries, postage stamps and murals. Like some of his famous predecessors, - Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Dürer and Holbein-, M.C. Escher, during his lifetime, made 448 lithographs, woodcuts and wood engravings and over 2000 drawings and sketches. What made Escher's pictures so appealing was that he used tessellations to create optical illusions. He is most famous for his so-called 'impossible structures', such as Ascending and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I, Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles. He created visual riddles, playing with the pictorially logical and the visually impossible. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) is a graphic artist known for his art tessellations. 'Designs featuring animals, birds, etc, which can fill the page, without over-lapping, to form a pattern.' 'A collection of plane figures that fills the plane with no overlaps and no gaps.' 'To form into a mosaic pattern, as by using small squares of stone or glass.' 'A tessellation is created when a shape is repeated over and over again covering a plane without any gaps or overlaps.'

Black white fish tessellation