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Mireille Linck is curator at Escher in The Palace. She conducts research on M.C. Escher and curates exhibitions on his life, work and contemporaries. Trained as an art historian and a great lover and connoisseur of works on paper, she previously worked at the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Teylers Museum.
4 July 2026
Painting apprentice Huug Vooys was 19 when he was invited to take part in an exceptionally special project: a mural no less than 48 metres long in the main PTT building, the post office on Kerkplein in The Hague. The design was by none other than M.C. Escher, who himself noted that he had possibly received "a most delightful commission" from the PTT. The large work was realised, but Escher did not execute the design himself - the honour fell to Huug Vooys.
7 August 2025
During his lifetime, M.C. Escher received several letters from enthusiasts sharing their admiration for his work. Not all of these have survived, which makes it very special when relatives lend such letters to a museum. The granddaughter of Hendrik Dekker temporarily loans his carefully written letter about the print Reptiles (1943) and Escher's reaction to it to Escher in The Palace. The handwritten correspondence will be on display from 18 March to 14 September 2025.
27 May 2025
How to depict infinity on paper was something that fascinated both M.C. Escher and Albert E. Bosman. Albert Bosman (1891-1961) was an engineer and maths teacher who also became an artist. Mathematics lay at the core of his work. Bosman and Escher were neighbours in Baarn (NL), where they bonded over a mutual interest in mathematical shapes, ideas and principles. The two artists made abstract principles visually accessible to a wider audience. For the first time, their work is being shown side by side in M.C. Escher & Albert E. Bosman: A Mathematical Connection. Bosman’s best-known creation, the Pythagoras Tree, and the other drawings based on it are on show in this small but fascinating presentation from 21 February until 15 June 2025 at Escher in The Palace.
2 February 2025
19 December 2024
25 May 2024
