Tadeusz Makowski was a prominent Polish painter born in 1882 in Krakow, Poland. He studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow under Jan Stanisławski and Józef Mehoffer. Makowski spent much of his career in France after moving to Paris in 1909, where he was friends with Pablo Picasso. Makowski began his career focusing on landscape paintings but later adopted Post-Impressionism and Cubism styles. He is renowned for his rural landscape and still life paintings.