Maurits Cornelis Escher: The Architect of Impossible Worlds Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-1972) remains one of the most singularly inventive and enduring figures in the history of graphic art. More than simply a printmaker, he was a meticulous architect of visual paradoxes – a master of illusion who challenged our perception of space, time, and mathematics. His work, initially largely ignored by the mainstream art world, has since ach…