Upstairs downstairs
| Ascending and Descending |
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| MC Escher , 1960 |
| lithography |
| 28.5 × 35.5 cm |
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Link to the picture |
Treppauf Treppab is the German title of a lithograph by the Dutch artist and graphic artist M. C. Escher from 1960.
The work is based on a model of a Penrose staircase , a motif of impossible figures that Escher used in other works such as in the works "Belvedere" (1958) and "Wasserfall" (1961). The picture stairs up stairs down shows a square constructed endless staircase on an open roof floor of a house.
literature
- Doris Schattschneider , Michele Emmer (Eds.): MCEscher's Legacy. A Centennial Celebration Collection of articles coming from the MC Escher Centennial Conference, Rome 1998 . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2005, ISBN 3-540-20100-9 .