Word: portner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lives quietly in Baarn, works up about half a dozen prints a year. An exhibition of his art in the Baarn high school (TIME, April 2, 1951) caught the attention of a few connoisseurs of the incomprehensible and led to last week's U.S. show. Critic Leslie Portner of the Washington Post and Times Herald reported that "critics in Europe have been trying for quite some time now to cubbyhole Escher," and proceeded to review the holes: "They have called him a mathematician, because he uses geometric solids in many of his works. They might also call...