Escher was born in 1898 in leeuwarden (netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from f.w. Van der haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus Fostering Escher's innate graphic ...Escher was born in 1898 in leeuwarden (netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from f.w. Van der haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus Fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the school of architecture and orna m.c.