Tadeusz Makowski
First and last name
Tadeusz Makowski
Date of birth
1882, Oświęcim
Date of death
1932, Paris
Tadeusz Makowski was a Polish painter working in Paris, a representative of the École de Paris (a multinational artistic group active in Paris between the wars and after World War II). Apart from studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under the guidance of Józef Mehoffer and Jan Stanislawski, he also studied classical and Polish philology at the Jagiellonian University. After graduation, he left the country for good and settled in France. His best known works include compositions depicting children, characterized by geometrization of forms, but also melancholy. His works were presented at many exhibitions in Amsterdam, Warsaw, Barcelona, Vienna or Budapest, among others.