Career
He is best known for his numerous pastels of street scenes in the historic Jewish town of Kazimierz – now one of the largest central districts of KrakóWest He was born to a family of merchants and began his higher education with technical studies, but soon abandoned them, studying instead with professors Leopold Loeffler, Florian Cynk and January Matejko at the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts in 1886–1895. From 1896 until 1903 he lived in Germany and studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich with Franz Stuck.
Then he went to Paris, finishing at the École des Beaux-Arts with Jean-Léon Gerome.
He also exhibited his paintings at the Salons of 1900, 1901, 1903 and 1904. Markowicz returned to Krakow in 1904 and set up a studio in the historic district of Kazimierz.
He traveled to Jerusalem in 1907–1908 where the Bezalel Academy had just opened, then to other parts of Europe until 1914. After 1930, he was the honorary President of the "Jewish Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts".
His Jewish scenes and character-studies show a unique originality of his style influenced by symbolism with elements of expressionism.
Markowicz died in Krakow in 1934 at the age of 62, and is buried at the local New Jewish Cemetery.