Tadeusz Makowski (29 January 1882,

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- 1 November 1932,

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) was a Polish painter who worked in France and was associated with the

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Biography

From 1902 to 1906, he studied classical

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at the

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. During that time, he also began studying art at the Kraków Academy of Fine Arts with Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer.Biographical notes
@ Pinakoteka. Upon completing his courses there in 1908, he moved to Paris, where he would live for the rest of his life. Originally he painted in the style taught by his professors. Then, he painted some

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es that attracted the attention of a group of Cubist painters, led by Henri Le Fauconnier, who worked in

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. This had a decisive influence on his work. At the invitation of Władysław Ślewiński, he spent the war years in

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and would return there several times. These trips inspired him to depart from strict cubism and go back to studying nature; creating many stylized landscapes.Tadeusz Makowski The complete Artworks - Image & Data Resources PiR
/ref> Later, his favorite subjects were carnivals, fairs and children, done in a style inspired by the old Dutch Masters, Polish folk art and

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. He also did

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book illustrations. During the 1920s, he lived briefly in the

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. From 1912 to 1931, he kept a diary that was published in Warsaw in 1961 by the State Publishing Institute (PIW).

Selected paintings

File:Tadeusz Makowski Skapiec.jpg, ''The Miser'' File:Pod drogowskazemOk. 1930.jpg, ''Three Children Near a Road Sign'' File:Winter by Tadeusz Makowski.jpg, ''Winter'' File:Tadeusz Makowski Szewc.jpg, ''The Shoemaker'' Palacze fajek.jpg, ''The Pipe Smokers'', National Museum, Wrocław

References

External links

ArtNet: More works by Makowski.

An appreciation of Makowski
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Biography

Selected paintings

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