Maurits Cornelis EscherΟλλανδία, 1898–1972

Up and Down

1947 · Print

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Up and Down is M. C. Escher’s lithograph of 1947 in Washington’s National Gallery of Art. People, stairs, trees and buildings form its architectural subject. The image is unusually narrow: 50.5 centimetres high and 20.6 wide. This Rosenwald impression was included in the travelling centenary exhibition devoted to Escher in 1997–1999.

Στοιχεία

Αριθμός καταλόγου: 1964.8.744

Τι απεικονίζει

Architecture Figures Stairs Tree Geometric Building Optical illusion

Στον κατάλογο

Χαρακτικά Λιθογραφία Μεταπολεμική τέχνη 20ός αιώνας Dutch

Πηγές

Εθνική Πινακοθήκη της Ουάσιγκτον
Εικόνα: Εθνική Πινακοθήκη της Ουάσιγκτον — © the artist or rights holder

Στη ζωή του καλλιτέχνη: Maurits Cornelis Escher

Όλη η ζωή

1 February 1944 – 1946
The death of his teacher Mesquita
On 1 February 1944 the Nazis arrested Samuel de Mesquita, who was of Jewish origin, with his family and sent them to Auschwitz; almost at once after arrival — presumably on 11 February — he and his wife were killed in the gas chamber. Escher helped to send his teacher’s works to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, keeping for himself a single sketch bearing the print of a German boot, and in 1946 organised a memorial exhibition there.
c. 1945
The end of the occupation: a diploma and an exhibition of the unyielding
Escher lived through the German occupation in the Netherlands. Before the end of the war he designed a diploma for the Temporary Academy in Eindhoven — an institution in the liberated south-east of the country — and immediately after the war he took part in an exhibition of artists who had refused to collaborate with the Nazi regime.
1946–1951
Mezzotint: a brief experiment
In 1946 Escher became interested in intaglio printing, but it took too much time: until 1951 he made no more than seven mezzotint prints and never returned to intaglio, preferring tonal contrast to linear outline. These few works are considered masterpieces of the technique.
1949
Rotterdam: a large exhibition of graphic work
In 1949 Escher and two other artists held a large exhibition of their graphic work in Rotterdam; several works were sold, and the artists explained how they were made — Escher, for instance, said that for “Reptiles” he modelled a small plasticine figure and moved it across a table.

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