Biography and information
Tadeusz Makowski (Pol. Tadeusz Makowski; b. 29 Jan 1882 — Auschwitz- mind. November 1, 1932, Paris) was a Polish painter.
Tadeusz Makowski in the years 1902-1906 he studied classical and Polish Philology at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and in parallel studied painting at the local Academy of fine arts (1903-1908), in the classes of Jan Stanislavsky and Josef Mehoffer. At the turn of the 1908/1909 years, Makovsky went to Paris, where it remains until the end of life. Initially, the artist fell under the influence of mural paintings of Puvis de Chavannes, then was close to the Montparnasse group of Cubists. Makovsky met with Pablo Picasso, and friendships between them. Before the First world war T. Makovsky, together with the artist Vladislav Slevinski travels in Brittany. Here it departs from the canons of cubism and begins to "learn from nature". The artist paints landscapes in the style of naive realism and stylized figurative compositions.
Artistic individual style T. Makovsky, developing under complicated mutual influence and amalgamation of old Netherlandish and Dutch art, naive realism, cubism and Polish folk painting, is presented to the viewer simultaneously metaphorical, fantastic and lyrical. The artist liked to portray children. After the death of T. Makovsky left a diary which the master led from 1922 to 1931 (publ. in Warsaw in 1961).
