Eugeniusz Markowski was a Polish painter, stage designer, educator and diplomat. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in the atelier of Professor Tadeusz Pruszkowski. He belonged to the New Figuration trend. The protagonist of his paintings is a man under the pressure of negative emotions, a deformed man - a monster, half funny, half tragic. The author's critical-ironic attitude determined almost all of his work. In the 1950s and 1960s, the rich, refined texture of his canvases, sometimes associated with damaged plaster, played a significant role in Markowski's paintings.