Matisse Is the Mother of a Daughter and a Son

 50 Years Ago Today

Monday 27th of March 1972
Artist Maurits Cornelis Escher aka M. C. Escher dies of natural causes at the age of 74 in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

He was born in Nantes, the capital of France, to Matisse (Emmanuelle) Maurits and Mervyn Escher. Matisse is the mother of a daughter and a son – Maurits' wife Marcel – and a daughter-in-law, Lucia Deacones (from the family name Matisse, aka Maurit Deacones). They emigrated to the Netherlands, where he has lived since 1985. In 1987, after a brief legal battle, he settled in London. Today Maurits is considered to be one of the founding of European art collective Arthaus (Arthaus is the name of a collective founded in the Netherlands after the death of a founder of the art collective), The Arthaus Collective – known in Belgium as "Arthaus-Celticia," after the name of one of the founding members. From 1994 to 2010 Maurits was involved in many of the innovative and creative works being exhibited around the country. He represented many projects in his first job. In 2001 he left the company that created the Arthaus exhibition, and then began working with other artists and artists to further the interests of the collective. He was on the staff.