Maurits Cornelis EscherHolandia, 1898–1972Magic Mirror
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Gdzie jest teraz „Magic Mirror”? Kolekcja: National Gallery of Art, Waszyngton. Obecnie poza wystawą. Sprawdzono 9 listopada 2026.
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Magic Mirror, M. C. Escher’s lithograph of 1946, belongs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington. Winged creatures cross a chequered floor, appearing both as solid bodies casting shadows and as flat silhouettes. Geometric objects stand among them. This impression is numbered 8 of 36, with an image approximately 27.9 by 44.5 centimetres.
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- 1974.28.22
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- National Gallery of Art
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Z życia: Maurits Cornelis Escher
Cały życiorys1 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.
![Ginevra de' Benci [obverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/8f29e3c9-a289-4d53-abf0-31a66e9e98fa/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/1478](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!2400,2400/0/default.jpg)
