Janusz Maria Brzeski studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Poznan and traveled through France and Italy as a scholarship holder. He had his first exhibition in 1928 in Poznan and soon went to Paris, where he painted, created photomontages, and designed magazine covers. From 1933, he belonged to the Guild of Artists "Jednoróg" and exhibited in Krakow, Warsaw, and Lviv.

After the war, he designed the first cover of "Przekrój" and a permanent vignette of the magazine. Brzeski's works related to photography - photomontages, collages - found their way after the artist's death, in the 1980s, to the world's largest museums, to large international exhibitions (the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Center Georges Pompidou in Pa...