Exhibition 'Becoming Escher' in Escher in The Palace
An extraordinary find led Joris Escher to a voyage of discovery into the life and work of his great-uncle, Maurits Cornelis Escher. Among family heirlooms, Joris found a Chinese lacquerware box containing ivory puzzles. Hidden in the bottom he found some drawings by M.C. Escher and his father, Joris’s great-grandfather. Escher in The Palace is to show them for the first time for the first time in an exhibition entitled Becoming Escher.
The lacquerware box came from the home of Maurits Cornelis Escher’s parents, where Maurits – known to family and friends as Mauk – spent his childhood surrounded by all kinds of art objects his father had brought back from China and Japan. As a child, he played with the ivory puzzles, and made drawings of them as an adult. The hidden drawing that Joris Escher found at the bottom of the box unravels the system behind a six-part puzzle, revealing the solution step by step. This was typical of the young Escher, who would often make new discoveries while doing puzzles.
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