Tadeusz Makowski
1882-1932
Tadeusz Makowski (Oswiecim1882 - Paris 1932) was a prominent Polish painter active in France for most of his life. He was born in Oswiecim. Makowski attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków. He studied under Jan Stanislawski and Józef Mehoffer. In 1909, he departed for Paris. Makowski started off as a landscape painter but then shifted towards Post-Impressionism and Cubism. However, he is arguably most famous for his rural landscape paintings.