b Beginnings Beginning with Architecture Family aspirations that Escher would be an architect were disappointed when he failed his f inal exams in history, constitutional organisations, political economies and book keeping, as a result he never off icially graduated. His family moved to Oosterbeek where a loophole in the law allowed Maurits to enrol at the Higher Technical School in Delft (1918-1919) and thus allowed him to repeat some of the subjects he had failed.
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